On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: > > Also, I’ve been toying with the idea of naming strategy AOP: >> - ability to lowercase all columns >> - ability to replace . with _ >> - ability to replace $ with something else >> - etc >> >> but I don’t see a good way to do this that would remain properly >> understandable by everyone (incl. the same person 3 months later). >> > > I can see this working by allowing naming strategy to accept "rules" > (insert better name here) that define componentized aspects of the naming > rule. For example, consider: > > new AggregatedNamingStrategy( > AllLowerNamingRule.INSTANCE, > DotToUnderscoreRule.INSTANCE, > DollarSignToUnderscoreRule.INSTANCE > ); > > Though, I think some of these fit better in implicit naming and others in > physical naming. >
Also, we want to be very careful with stuff like "all lower naming rule". For example, think of JPA's "quote all identifiers" setting. In fact, to circle back to a question Gunnar asked, this is one of the reasons I want to have PhysicalNamingStrategy accept Identifier (with quoted/unquoted flag) and return Identifier. _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
