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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:07:34 -0400
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Subject: Re: Relationships without FK constraints?
From: Michael Gentry <mgentry@masslight.net>
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I'm not familiar with that option/strategy, but perhaps someone else
here has used it and can jump in.

mrg


On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Joseph Schmidt
<joseph_schmidt71@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> I don't reverse engineer often, but I
>> believe if the constraints
>> aren't defined in the DB, then the reverse engineering
>> process has no
>> way of knowing about the relationship,
> Well, it could, based on the naming conventions: e.g.
> "artist_id" from any table is a relation to "artists" table.
> When doing reverse engineering there is the SmartNamingStrategy selectable, that I think is supposed to do exactly this kind of convention based recognition.
> At least from it's test class:
> cayenne\framework\cayenne-modeler\src\test\java\org\apache\cayenne\modeler\util\SmartNamingStrategyTest.java
> it looks like it's trying to test something in this direction.
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph.
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