com.avaje.ebean.config
Interface NamingConvention

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractNamingConvention, MatchingNamingConvention, UnderscoreNamingConvention

public interface NamingConvention

Defines the naming convention for converting between logical property names/entity names and physical DB column names/table names.

The main goal of the naming convention is to reduce the amount of configuration required in the mapping (especially when mapping between column and property names).

Note that if you do not define a NamingConvention the default one will be used and you can configure it's behaviour via properties.

Method Summary

String	getColumnFromProperty(Class<?> beanClass, String propertyName) Return the column name given the property name.
TableName	getM2MJoinTableName(TableName lhsTable, TableName rhsTable) Returns the ManyToMany join table name (aka the intersection table).
String	getPropertyFromColumn(Class<?> beanClass, String dbColumnName) Return the property name from the column name.
String	getSequenceName(String tableName) Return the sequence name given the table name (for DB's that use sequences).
TableName	getTableName(Class<?> beanClass) Returns the table name for a given Class.
boolean	isUseForeignKeyPrefix() Return true if a prefix should be used building a foreign key name.
void	setDatabasePlatform(DatabasePlatform databasePlatform) Set the associated DatabasePlaform.

Method Detail

setDatabasePlatform

void setDatabasePlatform(DatabasePlatform databasePlatform)

Set the associated DatabasePlaform.

This is set after the DatabasePlatform has been associated.

The purpose of this is to enable NamingConvention to be able to support database platform specific configuration.

Parameters:

databasePlatform - the database platform

getTableName

TableName getTableName(Class<?> beanClass)

Returns the table name for a given Class.

This method is always called and should take into account @Table annotations etc. This means you can choose to override the settings defined by @Table if you wish.

Parameters:

beanClass - the bean class

Returns:

the table name for the entity class

getM2MJoinTableName

TableName getM2MJoinTableName(TableName lhsTable,
                              TableName rhsTable)

Returns the ManyToMany join table name (aka the intersection table).

Parameters:

lhsTable - the left hand side bean table

rhsTable - the right hand side bean table

Returns:

the many to many join table name

getColumnFromProperty

String getColumnFromProperty(Class<?> beanClass,
                             String propertyName)

Return the column name given the property name.

Returns:

the column name for a given property

getPropertyFromColumn

String getPropertyFromColumn(Class<?> beanClass,
                             String dbColumnName)

Return the property name from the column name.

This is used to help mapping of raw SQL queries onto bean properties.

Parameters:

beanClass - the bean class

dbColumnName - the db column name

Returns:

the property name from the column name

getSequenceName

String getSequenceName(String tableName)

Return the sequence name given the table name (for DB's that use sequences).

Typically you might append "_seq" to the table name as an example.

Parameters:

tableName - the table name

Returns:

the sequence name

isUseForeignKeyPrefix

boolean isUseForeignKeyPrefix()

Return true if a prefix should be used building a foreign key name.

This by default is true and this works well when the primary key column names are simply "ID". In this case a prefix (such as "ORDER" and "CUSTOMER" etc) is added to the foreign key column producing "ORDER_ID" and "CUSTOMER_ID".

This should return false when your primary key columns are the same as the foreign key columns. For example, when the primary key columns are "ORDER_ID", "CUST_ID" etc ... and they are the same as the foreign key column names.