Add properties to getter-annotations in Freemarker reverse engineering templates?

Question

I am trying to implement a FreeMarker custom reverse engineering template that automatically creates my Hibernate classes.
In the build process, the template is used by hibernate-tools to generate the hibernate classes.
So far, I am using the default freemarker templates for that purpose and it works fine.

But now I am facing the questing:
How do I add additional properties to the default getter-annotations?

The default freemarker method for One-to-may associations is (implemented in Ejb3PropertyGetAnnotation.ftl):

...
<#elseif c2h.isCollection(property)>
    ${pojo.generateCollectionAnnotation(property, cfg)}
...

The generated java code is for example:

@OneToMany(fetch=FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy="person")      
public Set<ContactInformation> getContactInformations() {
    return this.contactInformations;
}

But I want to add cascade = CascadeType.ALL to each one-to-many getter annotation like this:

@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL
           fetch=FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy="person")

I am new to freemarker and hibernate and have no idea how to archive this.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Edwin Estévez · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-07T10:22:03.103

The answer is more simple: Just put ${property.setCascade("ALL")} before generateCollectionAnnotation method call.

<#elseif c2h.isCollection(property)>
${property.setCascade("ALL")}
${pojo.generateCollectionAnnotation(property, cfg)}

Also the result is much better because it uses the javax.persistence.CascadeType enum.

@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy="person")
public Set<ContactInformation> getContactInformations() {

List of cascade types can be used:

${property.setCascade("persist, merge, delete, refresh")}

The result:

@OneToMany(cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE, CascadeType.REMOVE, CascadeType.REFRESH }, fetch=FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy="person") 
public Set<ContactInformation> getContactInformations() {

This solution also generate the cascade type for ManyToMany relation. You need to control that if you don't like this behavior. The @OneToMany orphanRemoval attribute can be generate, but is out of the scope of the question.

Kind regards.

I can't test this cause I don't work on this project anymore. But your answer looks more appropriate! Thanks. — Pascal, Aug 08 '16 at 08:46
You're welcome @Pascal. It works great, I am using it in a project. — Edwin Estévez, Aug 08 '16 at 09:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '12 at 07:27

I found out, that the annotation

cascade = CascadeType.All

doesn't necessarily has to be in the signature of the @OneToMany-method.

The solution is to add the following line to the Freemarker template file Ejb3PropertyGetAnnotation.ftl:

   @${pojo.importType("org.hibernate.annotations.Cascade")}(value=${pojo.importType("org.hibernate.annotations.CascadeType")}.ALL)

All in all the method template for @OneToMany looks like this

<#elseif c2h.isCollection(property)>
   ${pojo.generateCollectionAnnotation(property, cfg)}
   @${pojo.importType("org.hibernate.annotations.Cascade")}(value=${pojo.importType("org.hibernate.annotations.CascadeType")}.ALL)                    
<#else>

And a results would be f. i.:

  @OneToMany(fetch=FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy="person")
  @Cascade(value=CascadeType.ALL)                    
  public Set<ContactInformation> getContactInformations() {
       return this.contactInformations;
  }

Add properties to getter-annotations in Freemarker reverse engineering templates?

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