generate-ui camel case issues

[tnine]

Hi all,
  I'm trying SEAM for the first time, and it seems great.  I've used Hibernate and JSF for years, just never so easily!  I'm taking on a small project in which I'm converting an excel spreadsheet with a ton of macros into a SEAM application.  I'm running into a few issues and I could use some help. 

1. I defined all of my entities using seam new-entity.  I then went through each entity and added the properties and corresponding setters/getters/annotations.  Once that's done I run seam generate-ui.  This is where I'm running into an issue.  I have Hibernate auto create my schema, so the back end is fine.  I'm currently using MySQL and it creates all the tables correctly.  However, I'm having issues with the camel case naming convention the generate-ui is using.  For instance, all the link targets are in the format of FraudCase.seam, but my pages are named fraudCase.seam.  As a result, all links to other entity entry forms are all completely broken.  Has anyone else experienced this?  If so, how do you fix what the generate-ui gives you(preferably at the generation phase as I'm rapidly changing my entities).  Below is a list of all the pages created for my FraudCase entity.  As you can see the case seems to be a bit random.

   
   FraudCase.page.xml
   fraudCase.xhtml
   FraudCaseEdit.page.xml
   FraudCaseEdit.xhml
   FraudCaseList.page.xml
   fraudCaseList.xhtml
   
   

   
   


2. I'm currently developing on MySQL 5 to get the project rolling.  Once I have Oracle Express Edition set up I need to migrate all my dialects and connections over to Oracle.  Is there an easy way to do this with the seam commands?  I did a search and the oracle driver class, dialect, and url appear in quite a few files so I'd prefer to not have to manually change them all.  I thought doing a seam setup then a seam create-project would overwrite all the existing config files for MySQL, but this doesn't appear to be the case.


3. Is it possible to have Hibernate output the DDL generation to a SQL file so I can give it to the DBA from the command line?  I'm assuming Hibernate Tools can do this, I'm just not sure how to invoke it from the seam environment.

My Environment

Seam: 2.0.2.SP1
JBoss: 4.2.3 GA (default config)
Java: 1.5
Platform: OS X 10.5.4

Thanks in advance,

Todd

[francof]

Todd,

I will try and help. I did some customization for seam-gen but did not change the names, I can live with those names.

But if I had to, here are the steps that I think you should follow.

make a copy of files before you edit :)

- C:\jboss-seam-2.0.2.SP1\seam-gen\build.xml 

Go to target generate-ui

Change case in lines like ..

<hbmtemplate filepattern="{class-name}Edit.xhtml"

Also change case in
C:\jboss-seam-2.0.2.SP1\seam-gen\view\list.xhtml.ftl

<#assign editPageName = entityName + "Edit">
<#assign listPageName = entityName + "List">

You might also have to change case in
view\edit.page.xml.ftl
view\layout\menu.xhtml.ftl

Run generate-ui again

About updating to Oracle schema, I think you have to edit hibernate properties in
C:\jboss-seam-2.0.2.SP1\seam-gen\build.properties
or seam.properties in your application folder

hibernate.connection.username=xxx
hibernate.connection.password=sonycard
hibernate.connection.driver_class=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
hibernate.cache.provider_class=org.hibernate.cache.HashtableCacheProvider
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect
hibernate.connection.url=jdbc\:oracle\:thin\:@localhost\:1521\:ORCL
hibernate.default_schema=scott

and then run seam update-project again.

If that does not do it, manually edit app-dev-ds.xml and peristence*.xml files in \resources folder

Franco

[pmuir]

Please report this in JIRA.

[tnine]

It appears this has already been logged.  Its just not fixed yet.