How to extract attributes and methods to MappedSuperclass | JPA Buddy

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The "Extract to MappedSuperclass" feature has become even better! Now, with JPA Buddy, you can extract both attributes and methods into a MappedSuperclass. It's important to notice that the selected methods will be checked to see if they use any class fields. If you accidentally forget to extract a field used in a method, JPA Buddy will remind you.
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[@Muescha]

I had hoped for a JPA helper method that would offer a convenient way to refactor the Pet class by attaching a superclass to it. It would be great if in the "Extract Superclass" dialog would it possible that I could select multiple entities and the helper method would suggest superclass members based on the selected entities.

[@JPABuddy]

Hey, Muescha! Great minds think alike ;) We also thought about it and we have tickets for improving the existing functionality: 1) issues.jpa-buddy.com/issue/JPAB-2468 2) issues.jpa-buddy.com/issue/JPAB-1689 So, we will try to implement them in one of the upcoming releases 🙂