Re: Pluralization of Object Names

From: Andrus Adamchik (andru..bjectstyle.org)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2005 - 09:00:46 EST

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    Yep. You can name your Java classes (ObjEntities) anything you want within
    Java naming rules... That's what the mapping is for.

    Andrus

    > 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
    >>
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    >>
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