Hi Guys,

I've been looking into this for the last couple of hours to no avail, so hopefully someone on here can help.

I've got a simple table in MySQL with an BIGINT field declared with auto_increment , and also as a primary key.

When using the Hibernate tools in Eclipse to reverse engineer the DAOs from the DB schema I was expecting the resulting code ( using EJB3 annotations ) to have the generator set automatically.. however this doesn't seem to be the case
have a simple revenge.xml that just includes the tables I want to generate from. I know I can set up a custom revenge.xml to set the id field to the correct generator, but it seems this is something that should be picked up from the schema and not need any intervention?

Any help would be much appreciated. If this isn't the case for any reason, or just hasn't been implemented yet and I could help with the implementation, please let me know.

Regards,

Toby

the detection is just not implemented. feel free to contribute a patch ;)

Ok great. I've talked to my boss and he's happy for me to spend some time on this so hopefully I'll be able to submit a patch for this in time.

Could you point me in the right direction to getting started with the source tree ( I guess it's just the trunk from svn? ) and where I need to start looking to find the correct part to patch? and also the procedure to submit a patch?

Regards,

Toby

see tools.hibernate.org for build and contribute.

You don't need all the eclipse stuff to work on this; just the hibernateext/tools and hibernateext/common directory.

The files relevant for this is JDBCBinder and/or defaultreverseengineering strategy and/or MetaDataDialect that somehow need to know how to figure out what strategy to use based on the table/column metadata.

Ok I've found all that so great. Not sure how long it'll take, but i'll be in touch soon. Many thanks :)

would be good if you could post the follow up in the tools forum. thanks.