I want to build a simple code generator in java that can take database connection string and then create the model layer for each table in database , I don't know how can I do that , so if any one has any tutorial or links that may help me complete this task i will be thankful
Thanks in Advance
I have found a good example on code project that can take the database and make a good code generation for the tables in database , but unfortunately it is written in C# and also generate C# code
I don't know if it right to generate C# code and then convert them to java using any conversion software , or the right thing is to try to modify it to generate java classes instead of C# classes
by the way the link for the example is http://www.codeproject.com/KB/codegen/TierGenerator.aspx
I need your advice as soon as you can
Thanks in Advance
For quick and simple code generator: Just write the java source code into a StringBuilder
and dump its content to a .java
file. I never used third party libs for simple autogenerators:
StringBuilder sourceBuilder = new StringBuilder();
sourceBuilder.append("package com.example.beans;\n\n");
sourceBuilder.append("import java.util.*;\n\n");
sourceBuilder.append("public class MyBean {");
for (DBField dbField:getFieldsFromDatabaseModel) { // this DBField class is pure fiction!
// bean attribute
sourceBuilder.append("\tprivate ")
.append(dbField.getType)
.append(toFieldName(dbField.getName()))
.append(" = null;\n");
// setter method
sourceBuilder.append("\tpublic void ")
.append(toSetterName(dbField.getName()))
.append("(");
.append(dbField.getType)
.append(toFieldName(dbField.getName()))
.append(")\n")
.append("\t\tthis.")
.append(dbField.getType)
.append(" = ")
.append(dbField.getType)
.append(";\n\t}");
// getter method ...
sourceBuilder.append("\t}\n}\n");