[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HBX-876) support configurable strategy for "format HQL" function in HQL editor

[Joseph Marques (JIRA)]

support configurable strategy for "format HQL" function in HQL editor
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         Key: HBX-876
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-876
     Project: Hibernate Tools
        Type: New Feature

    Versions: 3.2beta8    
    Reporter: Joseph Marques


use the HQL editor to mock up new JPQL statements, and then copy and paste them from there over into some @NamedQuery definition on the appropriate class. Persons responsible for maintaining multiple back-end codebases, or those motivated individuals that have personal projects on the side, might have to adhere to multiple code conventions across these different bases. In order to facilitate more control in this arena, which I believe would also add significant value to the tool, the HQL editor could support formatting statements based on a configurable strategy. Here are some suggestions:

1) Alias with "AS" - yes / no - determines whether all aliases should have "AS" inserted before it, if missing, or not
2) Captialization - ALLCAPS / allsmall / Firstletter
3) Relationship syntax - legacy / modern - determine whether inner joins shoudl be "IN (obj.relationships) rel" / "INNER JOIN obj.relationships rel
4) Explicit inner/outer - yes/no - determine whether the optional "inner" and "outer" keywords should be part of the formatted hql/jpql

But that's just to start. In an ideal world, every part of the formatting would be configurable (similar to how Eclipse offers extermely flexible code formatting) including:

* before / after / or both before & after what hql/jpql keywords the statement should break to the next line
* whether aliases should be automatically introduced (when they don't exist) for better readability

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