Synthetic identities
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
jOOQ's code generator recognises identity columns if they are reported as such by the database. Some databases do not support "real" identity columns, but allow for emulating them, e.g. through triggers and sequences (e.g. Oracle prior to 12c). If a column is a known "identity" without formally being one, users can specify a regular expression that matches all columns (one column per table), which will be treated as if they were formal identities. For example:
<configuration>
<generator>
<database>
<syntheticIdentities>SCHEMA\.TABLE\.ID</syntheticIdentities>
</database>
</generator>
</configuration>
See the configuration XSD, standalone code generation, and maven code generation for more details.
new org.jooq.meta.jaxb.Configuration()
.withGenerator(new Generator()
.withDatabase(new Database()
.withSyntheticIdentities("SCHEMA\\.TABLE\\.ID")
)
)
See the configuration XSD and programmatic code generation for more details.
// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
generationTool {
generator {
database {
syntheticIdentities = "SCHEMA\\.TABLE\\.ID"
}
}
}
See the configuration XSD and gradle code generation for more details.
As always, when regular expressions are used, they are regular expressions with default flags.
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