Hi,
I'm moving to Hibernate from OJB, and encountered a few problems when going on the path java->hbm->ddl sql, I have done some search on both XDoclet's website and Hibernate resources, without much success. I wonder if experienced users here can give me some pointers.
1. SchemaExport sql generation problem against SQLServer 2000:
Generated hibernate.cfg.xml (partial)
Code:
<session-factory>
<!-- properties -->
<property name="dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect</property>
<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<property name="use_outer_join">false</property>
<property name="connection.username">sa</property>
<property name="connection.password">sa</property>
<property name="connection.driver_class">com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver</property>
<property name="connection.url">jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost:1433;DatabaseName=mydb;SelectMethod=cursor</property>
<!-- mapping files -->
<mapping resource="..."/>
</session-factory>
My SchemaExport Ant task:
Code:
<target name="generate.sql"
description="Generate SQL script">
<taskdef name="schemaexport"
classname="net.sf.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExportTask"
classpathref="classpath.runtime"/>
<schemaexport
config="${dir.conf}/hibernate.cfg.xml"
quiet="no"
text="yes"
drop="no"
delimiter=";"
output="${dir.sql}/db_schema.sql"/>
</target>
The problems are: a) When text is set to "no", the database tables are not created. There're no errors. b) When text is set to "yes", the sql file is generated successfully, but with simple "drop xxx; create xxx..." pair. This does not work well since the first time it is used against an empty database, SQLServer will signal error for "drop xxx" since xxx doesn't exist at that time. I used the sql task with onerror="continue" to get around this problem, but it's not pretty.
2. XDoclet @hibernate.component produce wrong class name for inner class:
I have a Type class inside the User class, which is used as a component property of the User class:
Code:
package eg;
public class User {
public static final class Type {...}
private Type type;
....
}
If I mark getType() with @hibernate.component, without any attributes, the class attribute will be generated by XDoclet as "eg.User.Type", which is wrong since Hibernate requires "eg.User$Type". Now I have to specify class attribute explicitly to get around this.
3. Is there a way to add the package attribute to hibernate-mapping in the generated hbm.xml? I don't think merge file will do the trick.
4. Database Index & Unique:
a) Is there a way to specify the exact name of the generated index or unique constraint? If I add unqiue="true" to a column, SQLServer will generate a random suffix for my unique constraint name, which is ugly.
b) I have trouble generating database index, here's an property of my domain class:
Code:
/**
* @return Returns the name.
* @hibernate.property column = "NAME" length = "20" not-null="true" index="IDX_NAME"
*/
public String getName()
{
return name;
}
If I run hibernatedoclet against it
Code:
<target name="generate.hibernate"
description="Generates Hibernate class descriptor files.">
<taskdef name="hibernatedoclet"
classname="xdoclet.modules.hibernate.HibernateDocletTask">
<classpath refid="classpath.build"/>
</taskdef>
<hibernatedoclet
destDir="${dir.conf}"
excludedTags="@version,@author,@todo"
force="true"
mergeDir="${dir.conf}/hibernate"
verbose="false">
<fileset dir="${dir.src.java}">
<include name="eg/*.java"/>
</fileset>
<hibernate validatexml="true" version="2.0"/>
<hibernatecfg
driver="${db.jdbc.driver}"
jdbcUrl="${db.jdbc.url}"
userName="${db.jdbc.userName}"
password="${db.jdbc.password}"
dialect="${db.dialect}"/>
</hibernatedoclet>
</target>
The index is not generated in the hbm.xml:
Code:
<property
name="name"
type="java.lang.String"
update="true"
insert="true"
access="property"
column="NAME"
length="20"
not-null="true"
/>
Thanks for your help