names are nothing ... content is all
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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