ActiveAndroid abstract class table
Unfortunately ActiveAndroid does not support inheritance of models in that way just yet (https://github.com/pardom/ActiveAndroid/issues/14, https://github.com/pardom/ActiveAndroid/issues/257).
If you wanted to modify ActiveAndroid here's what you could do:
- Create some kind of annotation that allows you define a model (
Animals) as something that isn't persisted (refer tocom.activeandroid.annotation.Table). - Upon trying to executing queries for that class you could use reflection to determine its child classes and then have it perform that query per child class.
- Then you would basically take the list of results for each query and combine them into a single list and return that.
To be honest I've never seen inheritance in any Android ORM libraries, and personally I don't think it's a good design pattern for models. You may want to reconsider your reasoning for going down this path.