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icon5.gif  Customize JPA field name mapping using EclipseLink [message #1180319] Sun, 10 November 2013 23:08
Jianbao Tao is currently offline Jianbao TaoFriend
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I need to map camel-case names to underscore-separated names in my current project, which uses EclipseLink, due to historical reasons. I know we can customize name mapping individually in JPA, but we have a long list of camel-case names to change, so we want to avoid that kind of boilerplate codes if all possible.

What I want to achieve is as follows. Suppose we have an entity class as below:

@Entity
public class FooBar {
    @Id @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;

    @Temporal( TemporalType.TIMESTAMP )
    private Date dateCreated;
}

I want this class maps to a table with name "foo_bar" and columns "id" and "date_created". Note that all names in database are in lower case.

I googled around, and found a solution for changing table names. However, I can't figure out how to change field names in an entity class.

Below is my name-mapping customizer, where the method updateFieldNameMappings() is not giving what I want. So, how do I do this correctly?

public class JpaNameMappingCustomizer implements SessionCustomizer {

    @Override
    public void customize( Session session ) throws Exception {
        Map<Class, ClassDescriptor> descs = session.getDescriptors();
        Collection<ClassDescriptor> descriptors = descs.values();

        // This code assumes single table per descriptor!
        for (ClassDescriptor desc : descriptors) {
            String fullClassName = desc.getJavaClassName();
            String className= Helper.getShortClassName( fullClassName );
            String tableName = camelCaseToUnderscore(className);
            desc.setTableName( tableName );
            updateFieldNameMappings(desc);
        }
    }

    private void updateFieldNameMappings( ClassDescriptor desc ) {
        for (DatabaseMapping mapping : desc.getMappings()) {
            if (mapping.isDirectToFieldMapping()) {

                DirectToFieldMapping directMapping = (DirectToFieldMapping) mapping;

                // oldFieldName is something like "foo_bar.ID"
                String oldFieldName = directMapping.getFieldName();

                String newFieldName = camelCaseToUnderscore( oldFieldName ); // wrong

                directMapping.setFieldName( newFieldName );
            }
        }
    }

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