How to inherit e-bean models from parent model without creating the parent table?

Question

I have an abstract parent class Person:

@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS)
abstract class Person extends Model {
    String firstName;
    String lastName;
    int gender;
}

and two child classes, which inherits first:

@Entity
class User extends Person {}


@Entity
class BookAuthor extends Person {}

I want to create two tables: user and book_author. Table for model Person should not be created. How can I do this?

Answer 1

TABLE PER CLASS inheritance strategy is not supported by EBean for now. See https://github.com/ebean-orm/ebean/issues/116 and http://ebean-orm.github.io/docs/mapping/jpa/

You can use @MappedSuperclass annotation.

@MappedSuperclass
abstract class Person extends Model {...}

@Entity
public class User extends Person {...}

@Entity
public class BookAuthor extends Person {...}