EclipseLink/Examples/DBWS/DBWSIntermediateAttribute

Naming Convention for schema elements

As seen in the Basic Table example, the DBWSBuilder-generated eclipselink-dbws-schema.xsd file derives <element-tag> names from the Database table metadata:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 >
  <xsd:complexType name="empType">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="empno" type="xsd:int" xsi:nil="false"/>
      <xsd:element name="ename" type="xsd:string" xsi:nil="true"/>
      <xsd:element name="job" type="xsd:string" xsi:nil="true"/>
      <xsd:element name="mgr" type="xsd:int" minOccurs="0" xsi:nil="true"/>
      <xsd:element name="hiredate" type="xsd:dateTime" xsi:nil="true"/>
      <xsd:element name="sal" type="xsd:decimal" xsi:nil="true"/>
      <xsd:element name="comm" type="xsd:int" minOccurs="0" xsi:nil="true"/>
      <xsd:element name="deptno" type="xsd:int" xsi:nil="true"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
  </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>

Converting the database metadata into the names of <element-tag>'s is the job of o.e.p.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer's

public interface NamingConventionTransformer {
 
    public enum ElementStyle {
        ELEMENT, ATTRIBUTE, NONE
    };
 
    public String generateSchemaName(String tableName);
 
    public String generateElementAlias(String originalElementName);
 
    public ElementStyle styleForElement(String originalElementName);
}

In the eclipselink-dbwsutils.jar, the built-in transformers form a Chain-of-Responsibility

In the o.e.p.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer services file, the transformer chain is listed in order:

eclipselink-dbwsutils.jar
|  
+---META-INF
|   |   MANIFEST.MF
|   |  
|   \---services
|           org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer
            contains 3 lines:
              org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.ToLowerTransformer
              org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.TypeSuffixTransformer
              org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.SQLX2003Transformer

User-Provided NamingConventionTransformer

It is possible to change an <element-tag> to an "attribute" with a custom transformer. The user sub-classes o.e.p.tools.dbws.DefaultNamingConventionTransformer.
For example, given the table SIMPLE_TABLE

CREATE TABLE SIMPLE_TABLE (
  ID NUMERIC NOT NULL,
  NAME VARCHAR(25),    
  SINCE DATE,
  PRIMARY KEY (ID)
)

the following NamingConventionTransformer will:

• name the schema element 'simple'
• make the element names lowercase
• have the ID field represented as an attribute

package foo.bar.blah;
 
import org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.DefaultNamingConventionTransformer;
import static org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer.ElementStyle.ATTRIBUTE;
import static org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer.ElementStyle.ELEMENT;
import static org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer.ElementStyle.NONE;
 
public class MyNamingConventionTransformer extends DefaultNamingConventionTransformer {
 
    @Override
    public String generateSchemaAlias(String tableName) {
        return super.generateSchemaAlias("simple");
    }
 
    @Override
    public String generateElementAlias(String originalElementName) {
        return super.generateElementAlias(originalElementName.toLowerCase());
    }
 
    @Override
    public ElementStyle styleForElement(String elementName) {
        if ("id".equalsIgnoreCase(elementName)) {
            return ATTRIBUTE;
        }
        return ELEMENT;
    }
}

produces the schema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema targetNamespace="urn:simple" xmlns="urn:simple" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <xsd:complexType name="simple">
      <xsd:sequence>
         <xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="0"/>
         <xsd:element name="since" type="xsd:date" minOccurs="0"/>
      </xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:decimal" use="required"/>
   </xsd:complexType>
   <xsd:element name="simple" type="simple"/>
</xsd:schema>

The user must package their custom transformer in a .jar-file and identify it as a service by creating a file called org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer in the META-INF/services directory with the full-qualified classname of the transformer:

customtransformer.jar
|  
+---META-INF
|   |   MANIFEST.MF
|   |  
|   \---services
|           org.eclipse.persistence.tools.dbws.NamingConventionTransformer
            contains 1 line:
              foo.bar.blah.MyNamingConventionTransformer
|          
\---foo
    \---bar
        \---blah
            |   MyNamingConventionTransformer.class

NB - the custom transformer's customtransformer.jar file must be ahead of the eclipselink-dbwsutils.jar in order for it to be picked up by the DBWSBuilder utility. In addition, the DBWSBuilder utility always re-builds the Chain-of-Responsibility with the SQLX2003Transformer at the end to ensure that any transformer, default or custom, produces legal characters according to the SQL/X(2003) specification.