Re: Relationships without FK constraints?

From: Michael Gentry (mgentr..asslight.net)
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 14:07:34 EDT

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    I'm not familiar with that option/strategy, but perhaps someone else
    here has used it and can jump in.

    mrg

    On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Joseph Schmidt
    <joseph_schmidt7..ahoo.com> wrote:
    >
    >> I don't reverse engineer often, but I
    >> believe if the constraints
    >> aren't defined in the DB, then the reverse engineering
    >> process has no
    >> way of knowing about the relationship,
    > Well, it could, based on the naming conventions: e.g.
    > "artist_id" from any table is a relation to "artists" table.
    > When doing reverse engineering there is the SmartNamingStrategy selectable, that I think is supposed to do exactly this kind of convention based recognition.
    > At least from it's test class:
    > cayenne\framework\cayenne-modeler\src\test\java\org\apache\cayenne\modeler\util\SmartNamingStrategyTest.java
    > it looks like it's trying to test something in this direction.
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Joseph.
    >
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