[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HBX-959) allow foreign key property name override

allow foreign key property name override ---------------------------------------- Key: HBX-959 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-959 Project: Hibernate Tools Issue Type: Improvement Components: hbm2java Affects Versions: 3.2beta9, 3.2beta10 Reporter: Dan Allen Priority: Minor Original Estimate: 1 day Remaining Estimate: 1 day Without any special settings, the hbm2java tool will assign the @ManyToOne property the same name as the target class. For instance, let's say you have an employee table. Each employee can have a manager, who is also an employee. The column name might be manager_id, but the hbm2java tool will name the property employee. In this case, it is desirable to override the name of the property to be manager instead of employee. Currently, there is no way to do this if foreign keys are active on the table. It IS possible if foreign keys are NOT defined on the table since then the foreign-key element in *.reveng.xml comes into play. The problem comes when you try to override the foreign-key, it just ends up created TWO @ManyToOne properties. What I am looking for (in hypothetical) is: <column name="manager_id" property="manager" /> Obviously, that syntax only works for basic types, not associations. There needs to be way to override the foreign-key settings WITHOUT creating a new foreign key relationship. The location in the code where the property name is decided is JDBCBinder#bindOutgoingForeignKeys() which then delegates to ReverseEngineeringStrategy#revengStrategy.foreignKeyToEntityName()