hbm2java - How to customize the java code created!

jnsunkersett · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 4:49 am

Hi,

I hv finally been successful in reverse enginnering my oracle Db into POJOs retaining the XDoclet tags.

I would like to know how to customize the generated Java code.

eg. My table is named TB_PRODUCT and middlegen+hbm2java generate a TbProduct.hbm.xml and TbProduct.java

I wud prefer to have it as Product.java.

Secondly the generated Xdoclet tags have 12 spaces from the left.
I wud prefer to have TABs or at least a 3-4 spaces at max.

Quote:

/**
* @hibernate.property
* column="INSTITUTION_ID"
* unique="true"
* length="32"
* not-null="true"
*............. -> Too many spaces! I wish to reduce this but unfortunately it does not show in the post in a browser.
*/

Any clues ?

jnsunkersett · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:15 am

Further to this I doscovered,

hbm2java does not carry fwd the property type of the element/ column into the XDoclet tag of the generated Java code.

For instance (extract from .hbm.xml file is)

Code:

    <property
        name="lastUpdatedBy"
        type="java.lang.String"
        column="LAST_UPDATED_BY"
        not-null="true"
        length="32"
    >
    </property>

creates an Xdoclet tag in java code as

Code:

    /** 
     *            @hibernate.property
     *             column="LAST_UPDATED_BY"
     *             length="32"
     *             not-null="true"
     *         
     */

type = "string" is missing!

How to correct this!

max · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 1:50 pm

eh - hbm2java does not yet carry or generate ANY xdoclet information - it is all something that is placed in meta attributes (such as class-description) by e.g. middlegen.

hbm2java will probably first get this capability in H3 since it require a tad more information from the hbm.xml files than the current hbm2java built-in parser reads.

jnsunkersett · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:47 am

Oh!

In that case can the one edit the meta information/ attributes that MiddleGen maintains.

Cud some from the MiddleGen team look at this.
(as MiddleGen on sourceForge does not have a forum of its own so posting it here)

david · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:04 am

Sure - Have a look at the velocity script that Middlegen creates the output from - edit it as you please.