Re: Pluralization of Object Names

From: Jürgen Saar (jsaa..eb.de)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 05:13:41 EST

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    cayenne-use..bjectstyle.org schrieb am 19.01.05 07:43:41:
    >
    > The answer here seems obvious but I'm so new to Cayenne (3-4 hours :-)
    > that I thought I'd write and double-check I'm not going to hurt myself.
    >
    > I've got a bottom-up situation where I've inherited a database. The
    > previous developer did a decent job with naming, I've got tables with names
    > like "products", "units", etc. Note that the table names are plural, as
    > they should be since the tables hold lots of each entity.
    >
    > When I do a "Reengineer Database Schema" in the Cayenne Modeler it pulls in
    > all my tables and creates entities. But the entities are left with plural
    > names. This doesn't make sense (to me anyway) since that entity will be an
    > object that represents a single entity from that table. Right?
    >
    > So am I getting into hot-water if I just go through and un-pluralize the
    > entity names?
    >
    > Tools like Middlegen seem to "do the right thing" with regard to
    > de-pluralization, so maybe this is an item on the wish list?
    >
    > I'm happy to do it by hand, I just want to make sure I'm not breaking
    > something.
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
    > - Gary
    >
    > --
    > Greywether, Inc.
    >

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