Changing default property name with annotations

Myk · **Joined:** Sun Jan 04, 2004 2:46 pm **Posts:** 147

Hibernate version: 3.2.1
Hibernate annotation version: 3.2.0

Hi there,

I have recently upgraded from hibernate 2.1.7 to 3.2.1. The migration was very smooth except for one problem which I suspect is of my own making but I can't find a way round it.

Previously I used .hbm.xml files. An example property looked like this

Code:

Note the ActId starts with an uppercase letter.

Converting to Hibernate 3 and using annotations now the property name has changed to actId.

Here's the annotation used.

Code:

    @javax.persistence.Basic
    @javax.persistence.Column( name = "act_id", nullable = false )
    @org.hibernate.annotations.Type( type = "int" )
    public int getActId() { return this.ActId; }
    public void setActId(int val) {this.ActId = val; }

This of course means all my queries that use a property name are failing because the case has changed.

I couldn't find anyway using annotations to override the property name so it matches what I had before. I've poked through all the javax.persistence and org.hibernate.annotations packages but to no avail.

Is this possible or will I have to fallback to the xml files or change all my HQL queries?

Regards,
Mike

P.S. I know the ActId property is probably wrong but after 3 years of accumulated HQL queries I'm kinda stuck with it.

emmanuel · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:38 pm

I woudl change the HQL queries, but an hbm file will work