com.avaje.ebean.config
Class MatchingNamingConvention

java.lang.Object
  com.avaje.ebean.config.AbstractNamingConvention
      com.avaje.ebean.config.MatchingNamingConvention

All Implemented Interfaces:

NamingConvention

public class MatchingNamingConvention

extends AbstractNamingConvention

The JPA naming convention where column names match property names and table names match entity names.

The JPA specification states that the in the case of no annotations the name of the class will be take as the table name and the name of a property will be taken as the name of the column.

Author:

emcgreal

MatchingNamingConvention

public MatchingNamingConvention()

Create with a sequence format of "{table}_seq".

MatchingNamingConvention

public MatchingNamingConvention(String sequenceFormat)

Instantiates with a specific format for DB sequences.

Parameters:

sequenceFormat - the sequence format

getColumnFromProperty

public String getColumnFromProperty(Class<?> beanClass,
                                    String propertyName)

Description copied from interface: NamingConvention

Return the column name given the property name.

Returns:

the column name for a given property

getTableNameByConvention

public TableName getTableNameByConvention(Class<?> beanClass)

Description copied from class: AbstractNamingConvention

Return the tableName using the naming convention (rather than deployed Table annotation).

getPropertyFromColumn

public String getPropertyFromColumn(Class<?> beanClass,
                                    String dbColumnName)

Description copied from interface: NamingConvention

Return the property name from the column name.

This is used to help mapping of raw SQL queries onto bean properties.

Parameters:

beanClass - the bean class

dbColumnName - the db column name

Returns:

the property name from the column name