Allow PhysicalNamingStrategy implementations to detect when a name is implicit or explicit ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HIBERNATE-160 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HIBERNATE-160 Project: Hibernate Integration Issue Type: Feature Request Reporter: Phillip Webb Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Optional It's possible for column names to be explicitly defined, for example: {code:java} @Column(name = "firstName") private String firstName; {code} Or deduced implicitly from the name of the field: {code:java} @Column private String firstName; {code} Both of these forms result in a call to {{PhysicalNamingStrategy}} with an {{Identifier}} but it's not possible to tell if the identified is explicitly named or deduced (the relevant code is [here|https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/47382f69cc282a3df1bc...] and [here|https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/47382f69cc282a3df1bc...]). It would be nice if the {{Identifier}} could include an additional field that tells us where it came from. This would allow generic naming strategies to be developed that back-off when a {{name}} attribute is defined by the user. For more background on users that are asking for this see [this Spring Boot issue|https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/2129].