Feature to allow history entity creation using Copy-Paste

Hi!

EclipseLink provides support for history tables, however, it lacks support for auto history table creation. https://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/JPA/History

Automatic table creation and extending could be achieved by special “History Entity” e.g.

Base entity

@Entity
public class Person {

   @Id
   private Long personId;
   private String firstName;
   private String lastName;
   ..
} 

History entity contains same fields, except @Id field (personId in example) should be @Basic, becouse it will contain many records with same id

And additionally it should contain fields (could be modelled as usual)

@Entity
public class PersonHist {

   @Id
   private Long histId;

   // Add here the extra fields/columns that should exist for the
   // history table.
   private Date rowStartTime;
   private Date rowEndTime;
   ..
}

My proposal is to create “mirror”, or “history” entity, based on real entity, which will replicate all fields from the base entity, except replacing @Id with @Basic (or allows attribute override) And allows to specify additional fields, like @Id private Long histId; private Date rowStartTime; private Date rowEndTime;

Base idea is to allow modeling special “mirror” entities, with possibility to add / override fields from base entity

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Another possible solution , and much simpler, is to allow one-moment entity copy - and paste. And property copy-and paste.

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Thanks for your attention, then I close this issue