Yeah, it will make ObjRelation named "artist" from column "artist_id". More info here: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CAYDOC/Reverse+Engineer+Database
2009/3/27 Michael Gentry <mgen...@masslight.net> > 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_schmid...@yahoo.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. > > > > > > > > > > >
