[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-11975) JPA Tooling - Adding JPA Annotations to a POJO - Allow users to choose the field to be marked as PK

[Max Rydahl Andersen (JIRA)]

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Max Rydahl Andersen commented on JBIDE-11975:
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yes, the initial intent was that the ui shuold be as simple as possible to avoid complexity.

Thus we look for id properties and if you don't set one we don't add one and you will get an error by the validator that you can easily fix and then run the generation again.

That said, I agree for missing @Id it makes sense asking or at least pointing out @Id needs to be added.

Putting on 3.4.x though since its a bigger change/fix.
                
> JPA Tooling - Adding JPA Annotations to a POJO - Allow users to choose the field to be marked as PK
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>                 Key: JBIDE-11975
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-11975
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: hibernate
>            Reporter: Vimal Kansal
>             Fix For: 3.4.x
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>
> Hi,
> I am using JBDS 5.0 Beta 3. I created a POJO with follwoing attributes :
> String username;
> String password
> String loginCount;
> Then I invoked conetxt menu option "Generate Hibernate/JPA annotations", it generates only @Entity annotation. Obviously there is no way for the wizard to find out which attribute should act as PK. However if I include a string "id" anywhere in "username" e.g idusername, usernameid, useridname, it assumes it to be the PK and generates @Id and @GeneratedValue annotation. I wonder if this is by design? I think a better approach would be to let the user choose on the wizard, which field he wants to mark as PK.

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