Hi,


I am using Hibernate Tools to generate domain code and hbm files. I am using the Eclipse plugins for that.

I want to control the default-lazy attribute in the hibernate-mapping element. Looking at the template this seems to be controlled by something called global settings. Where can i set these global settings? I tried setting a property in the exporter in the Eclipse plugin, but that failed.


Best regards, René

You can't set up global settings anyhow.
But you can use custom template instead.
Create in folder myTemplates folder hbm and file hibernate-mapping.hbm in hbm folder.
Enter

as file content.
When you run export in eclipse set up custom template folder to myTemplates folder.

Hi Dmitry,

Thank you very much for your reply. I have used custom templates already to customize the output of Hibernate Tools. However, it would have been nice if the output could be influenced by setting some parameters somewhere. I wanted to be able to switch between lazy loading enabled and disabled in an easy way. Too bad that i cannot.

I'll change the template whenever i need to then. Thanks again.

Nothing could be easier.
Just create 2 launch configurations. One with custom template, other without it.

Hi Dmitry,

Never thought about that! I often tend to overlook the obvious.

Thanks.

You are welcome!

you can actually control global settings. look at HibernateMappingExporter which takes in a HibernateMappingGlobalExporter - requires subclassing to control but it is there if needed :)

note customizing the template is by far the simplest approach...but if you want to you can do it programmaticallly too.

Max, the feature you a talking about is accessible in ant-task, but not directly in IDE, isn't it?

You can setup custom exporters in both Ant and the IDE.

custom exporters *and* properties to be precise. So no, this is accessible from both "ui"'s.

Hi Max,


When you talk about the custom exporter in the IDE you mean the Generic Exporter, i suppose? The Hibernate Tools Reference Guide refers to ANT solutions only, but i imagine that I should add the hbmtemplate attributes as properties to the Generic Exporter in the Eclipse Exporters dialog? I found that most of the properties refer to attributes that are documented in the Hibernate Tools Reference Guide, but I am missing the property exporterclass which seems crucial to me if i want to create my own exporter. Is it simply a matter of adding this property as a "custom" property?

yes. there is a 1-to-1 correspondance here. if not - that is a bug ;)

I will try this at some later time, my hands are tied right now, need to figure out why some unittests are failing. Thanks for the help.