Hi

I'm using XDoclet 1.2 with Hibernate 2.1.3 and it's all going well.

When I use schemaUpdate to build tables, etc in my database it all works nicely except that the names given to foreign key constraints are generated (and hence ugly). I'd really like to be able to name them. Is there any way I can do this with with the mapping document, and (hence?) from xdoclet?

Thanks,

Craig

Currently there is not a way to name generated FK constraints.

Thanks for the reply Steve.

I've created a new feature request in Jira.

Craig

More information!

I put in a new feature request in Jira, but actually, the functionality already exists. To quote Christian...

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Resolver: Christian Bauer
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 8:59 AM

This functionality already exists, use the "foreign-key" attribute on <one-to-one>, <many-to-one>, <key>, and <many-to-many> mapping elements. Note that inverse="true" sides will not be used, only the non-inverse side will be looked at for the constraint names.



So, I tried this out, but version 1.2 of XDoclet doesn't support the foreign-key tags, only 1.2.1 of XDoclet.

I must also say that I'm very impressed with the way that XDoclet generates the mapping documents in that it respects inheritance properly.

In my situation I have a many-to-one relationship defined in a superclass, but I can still name the foreign-key constraint in the subclass, simply by overriding the method to just call the superclass method, but providing the @hibernate.many-to-one foreign-key="fk..." tag in the subclass. Very nice!

Well done XDoclet and Hibernate!