[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HBX-946) Add a general meta for all the tables in the database, see [HBX-575]

[Hashim Kubba (JIRA)]

Add a general meta for all the tables in the database, see [HBX-575]
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                 Key: HBX-946
                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-946
             Project: Hibernate Tools
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: reverse-engineer
    Affects Versions: 3.2beta9
         Environment: using eclipse 3.2.2
JDK 1.5
hibernate tools 3.2beta9
h2 database ver 1.0

            Reporter: Hashim Kubba
            Priority: Minor


I'm adding meta attributes in reveng.xml (HBX-575) for customization of the resulting Java code from a reverse engineered database. yet I would really like to be able to add a general class-description to all my classes ( say @ Auther or @version ) , even better; I want all my classes to extend BasicDataObject where I can add some static final constants to use, but now I have to add that to each table 

<hibernate-reverse-engineering>
	<table name="FOO">
		<meta attribute="extends">BasicDataObject</meta>
       </table name>
	<table name="BOO">
		<meta attribute="extends">BasicDataObject</meta>
       </table name>
        ...
</hibernate-reverse-engineering>

What I would like to see is something like

<hibernate-reverse-engineering>
	<meta attribute="extends">BasicDataObject</meta>
</hibernate-reverse-engineering>

and that will make all my classes extend BasicDataObject; metas that can be used directly under hibernate-reverse-engineering are:

* class-description	general comment for all classes
* implements		   implements a common interface with constants	
* extends		       extends a common class with constants and common methods
* scope-class		   make all classes protected	
* scope-set		     all sets in all classes
* scope-get		     all gets in all classes

A nice to have will be:
* generated-class-suffix
* generated-class-prefix

or <meta name="generated-class" suffix="suffix" prefix="prefix" />
that will allow me to control all the classes names

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