[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HBX-1129) <table-filter> and <table> tags too far away from each other

[Joachim Durchholz (JIRA)]

<table-filter> and <table> tags too far away from each other
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                 Key: HBX-1129
                 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-1129
             Project: Hibernate Tools
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: reverse-engineer
    Affects Versions: 3.2.4.GA
         Environment: Irrelevant
            Reporter: Joachim Durchholz


For reasons of performance (reverse engineering is slow on Oracle) and keeping the list of relevant tables under control (only 10% of tables in the database are used in Java code), I'm using a separate <table-filter> directive for each table.
This gives me a hibernate.reveng.xml like this:

  <table-filter match-name="TABLE1" />
  <table-filter match-name="TABLE2" />
  ... (dozens of additional declarations)

  <table name="TABLE1">
    ...
  </table>
  <table name="TABLE2">
    ...
  </table>
  ... (dozens more)

This means that the information pertaining to any specific table is distributed over two separate blocks in hibernate.reveng.xml, the <table-filter> block and the <table> block.

I see two approaches to improve this:

a) Relax the DTD so that <table-filter> and <table> can be freely mixed. This would allow to have a single block per file, and make empty separator lines between per-table blocks useful.

b) Automatically import a table if it's mentioned in a <table> tag (or in a foreign key) and wasn't imported through a <table-filter> tag already.

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