[CAY-402] Entity/Attribute/Relationship naming improvements on reverse-engineering

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Undefined future
• Fix Version/s: 3.0M5, 3.0
• Component/s: Core Library, Modeler
• Assignee: Andrey Razumovsky
• Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
• Created: 30/Nov/05 10:39
• Updated: 08/May/10 10:34
• Resolved: 14/Oct/08 09:52

Description

Users should be given some flexibility when it comes to default names generated during reverse engineering. E.g. there were requests to automatically change plural form to singular ("product_groups" -> "ProductGroup"). There maybe other user-specific cases for transforming DB name to Java name.

Suggested solution was to allow entering regex-based rules in the Modeler:

http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/lists/cayenne-user/2005/11/0104.html

Another related request suggested to have an option for naming relationships using attribute names instead of target entity names. This may also be one of the rules:

http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/lists/cayenne-user/2005/11/0106.html

Another suggestion by Cris - store the rules in DataMap for possible reverse engineering with Ant. This should allow model synching directly against the database (but would of course require a special Ant task)