MyGeneration, no template for relationships

MyGeneration user · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:17 pm

I've tried the 2 templates that Mygeneration has links to and both seem to lack the ability to define relationships between objects. i.e. The hbm.xml files don't have one to one/one to many relationships defined, and the same in classes.

As an example say you have an order and customer table. It will create the the two classes, but it wont put in Order.getCustomer() method in the class. I am fairly certain I am using the templates correctly, but without having these defined the templates and thus MyGeneration seem fairly useless.

KPixel · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:12 am

IIRC, some relationships were supported by MyGeneration templates...

Anyway, you can always add/customize them :wink:

k-dub · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 8:45 am **Posts:** 226

Sorry, I haven't had any time to worry about the MyGen templates. I've been using NHibernate Analyzer lately. MyGen is only helpful in legacy environments, and coding the templates is tedious.

It's not too hard to tweak the templates if you are so inclined.

Nels_P_Olsen · **Posted:** Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:36 pm

The lack of relationship support in the MyGeneration template for NHibernate is a big issue for us. Legacy environments are why many of us have jobs ... to clean up customer's existing crap that they won't let go of ...

Assuming there is such support in the Hibernate template, shouldn't it be easy to convert?

k-dub · **Joined:** Thu May 12, 2005 8:45 am **Posts:** 226

If there is a Hibernate template in MyGeneration, it shouldn't be too hard to convert.

Another possible tool is the ActiveRecord Generator. It isn't great with relationships yet, but it is a nice shortcut. If you don't want to use ActiveRecord, though, I guss that doesn't help much.

gekannt · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:26 am

I have hacked kdub's MyGeneration template to add support for one-to-many relationships, and do plan to publish those changes as soon as I can a) get some free time, and b) figure out how to do so on MyGeneration's template page. It's true that tweaking the templates isn't very hard.

gekannt · **Posted:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:53 am

Miraculously, some free time showed up in my day today, so with some help from MyGeneration's forums, I put up my modified version of k-dub's template. Among other changes, it includes support for one-to-many relations, null tests for the setter properties of not-null columns, and a required (not-null) fields constructor.