net.java.ao.schema
Class AbstractFieldNameConverter

java.lang.Object
  net.java.ao.schema.AbstractFieldNameConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

FieldNameConverter, FieldNameProcessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

CamelCaseFieldNameConverter, UnderscoreFieldNameConverter

public abstract class AbstractFieldNameConverter
extends Object
implements FieldNameConverter, FieldNameProcessor

An abstract implementation of FieldNameConverter which handles common tasks for the name converter (i.e. relations annotations, accessor/mutator annotations, etc). For most tasks, custom field name converters should extend this class, rather than directly implementing FieldNameConverter.

Author:

Daniel Spiewak

Constructor Summary

protected	AbstractFieldNameConverter() Default constructor implementing the default behaviour for active objects.
protected	AbstractFieldNameConverter(List<FieldNameResolver> fieldNameResolvers)

Method Summary

abstract String	convertName(String name)
String	getName(Method method) Handles operations which should be common to all field name converters such as overriding of the generated field name through annotations, etc.
String	getPolyTypeName(Method method) Documentation on the getName(Method) method.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractFieldNameConverter

protected AbstractFieldNameConverter()

Default constructor implementing the default behaviour for active objects.

See Also:

AbstractFieldNameConverter

protected AbstractFieldNameConverter(List<FieldNameResolver> fieldNameResolvers)

Method Detail

getName

public final String getName(Method method)

Handles operations which should be common to all field name converters such as overriding of the generated field name through annotations, etc. This method also handles the converting through the Java Bean method prefix convention (get/set/is), allowing the implementing class to only concern itself with converting one String (from the method name) into another.

This method delegates the actual conversion logic to the convertName(String) method. There is rarely a need for subclasses to override this method.

Specified by:

getName in interface FieldNameConverter

Parameters:

method - The method for which a field name must be generated.

Returns:

A valid database identifier to be used as the field name representative of the method in question.

See Also:

FieldNameConverter.getName(Method)

getPolyTypeName

public final String getPolyTypeName(Method method)

Documentation on the getName(Method) method.

Specified by:

getPolyTypeName in interface FieldNameConverter

Parameters:

method - The method for which a corresponding field name must be generated.

Returns:

A valid database identifier to be used as the field name representative of the method in question.

See Also:

FieldNameConverter.getPolyTypeName(Method)

convertName

public abstract String convertName(String name)

Specified by:

convertName in interface FieldNameProcessor