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| 1 | package org.apache.torque.engine.database.model; | |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | /* | |
| 4 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one | |
| 5 | * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file | |
| 6 | * distributed with this work for additional information | |
| 7 | * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file | |
| 8 | * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the | |
| 9 | * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance | |
| 10 | * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
| 11 | * | |
| 12 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
| 13 | * | |
| 14 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, | |
| 15 | * software distributed under the License is distributed on an | |
| 16 | * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY | |
| 17 | * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the | |
| 18 | * specific language governing permissions and limitations | |
| 19 | * under the License. | |
| 20 | */ | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | import java.util.List; | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | import org.apache.torque.engine.EngineException; | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | /** | |
| 27 | * The generic interface to a name generation algorithm. | |
| 28 | * | |
| 29 | * @author <a href="mailto:dlr@finemaltcoding.com>Daniel Rall</a> | |
| 30 | * @author <a href="mailto:byron_foster@byron_foster@yahoo.com>Byron Foster</a> | |
| 31 | * @version $Id: NameGenerator.java,v 1.1 2007-10-21 07:57:27 abyrne Exp $ | |
| 32 | */ | |
| 33 | public interface NameGenerator | |
| 34 | { | |
| 35 | /** | |
| 36 | * The character used by most implementations as the separator | |
| 37 | * between name elements. | |
| 38 | */ | |
| 39 | char STD_SEPARATOR_CHAR = '_'; | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | /** | |
| 42 | * The character which separates the schema name from the table name | |
| 43 | */ | |
| 44 | char SCHEMA_SEPARATOR_CHAR = '.'; | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | /** | |
| 47 | * Traditional method for converting schema table and column names | |
| 48 | * to java names. The <code>CONV_METHOD_XXX</code> constants | |
| 49 | * define how names for columns and tables in the database schema | |
| 50 | * will be converted to java source names. | |
| 51 | * | |
| 52 | * @see JavaNameGenerator#underscoreMethod(String) | |
| 53 | */ | |
| 54 | String CONV_METHOD_UNDERSCORE = "underscore"; | |
| 55 | ||
| 56 | /** | |
| 57 | * Similar to {@link #CONV_METHOD_UNDERSCORE} except a possible | |
| 58 | * schema name (preceding a dot (.) )is omitted | |
| 59 | * | |
| 60 | * @see JavaNameGenerator#underscoreOmitSchemaMethod(String) | |
| 61 | */ | |
| 62 | String CONV_METHOD_UNDERSCORE_OMIT_SCHEMA = "underscoreOmitSchema"; | |
| 63 | ||
| 64 | /** | |
| 65 | * Similar to {@link #CONV_METHOD_UNDERSCORE} except nothing is | |
| 66 | * converted to lowercase. | |
| 67 | * | |
| 68 | * @see JavaNameGenerator#javanameMethod(String) | |
| 69 | */ | |
| 70 | String CONV_METHOD_JAVANAME = "javaname"; | |
| 71 | ||
| 72 | /** | |
| 73 | * Specifies no modification when converting from a schema column | |
| 74 | * or table name to a java name. | |
| 75 | */ | |
| 76 | String CONV_METHOD_NOCHANGE = "nochange"; | |
| 77 | ||
| 78 | /** | |
| 79 | * Given a list of <code>String</code> objects, implements an | |
| 80 | * algorithm which produces a name. | |
| 81 | * | |
| 82 | * @param inputs Inputs used to generate a name. | |
| 83 | * @return The generated name. | |
| 84 | * @throws EngineException if the name could not be generated | |
| 85 | */ | |
| 86 | String generateName(List inputs) throws EngineException; | |
| 87 | } | |
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