Torque table and column naming

[Byron Foster <bf...@base2.cc>]

Hello,

     I was wondering if it would useful to submit a patch that would 
change the behavior of how a table and column name is converted from the 
database xml schema to the java source name. Currently  the behavior is so:

foo_bar ->  FooBar
FooBar ->  Foobar
fooBar ->  Foobar

However, I thought it would be more intuitive to change the behavior to 
this:

foo_bar -> FooBar
FooBar -> FooBar
fooBar -> FooBar
Foobar -> Foobar
foobar -> Foobar
 
Formally,  always capitalize first character.  Always capitalize 
character after an underscore, remove underscores.  Change nothing else.

Java source names created by database names with underscores would not 
change under this new approach.  But I think the added behavior is more 
intuitive.  In general it seems to me that if I name a table "FooBar" I 
would like the class name to reflect the same, and not "Foobar".  Same 
goes for the column names.  The database xml names are significant since 
they may either be converted from database models, or output sql from 
torque may be used to create db models.

Is this too much of a drastic change in naming?  should this altered 
behavior be a property to be turned on?

Thanks,

Byron


  



 


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