Re: [eclipselink-users] DDL for column comment

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

  @Column is defined in the JPA specification.  It can only contain what is 
defined in the JPA specification.  This is a suggestion you could make to the 
JPA Expert group for inclusion in a future version of the spec.

-Tom

cinhtau wrote:
> Hi Tom, 
>
> thank you for your answer. 
>
> Would it make sense to extend the @Column annotation with attribute name
> comment? I didn't read the JSR so far, but maybe this is a sensible
> approach.
>
> Though it is only a documentation feature, I guess it isn't worth the effort
> for the mainstream.
>
>
> tware wrote:
> > There is not currently a feature like that.  Your best option is to
> > generate the 
> > DDL to a SQL script with our sql-script DDL generation and then add the
> > comments 
> > manually to the script.
> >
> > -Tom
> >
> > cinhtau wrote:
> > > Dear EclipseLink users,
> > >
> > > does EclipseLink or JPA 2.0 in general supports a way to fill or alter
> > > comments of created data definitions?
> > > DDL - creation works like a charm and it is highly flexible. 
> > >
> > > @Id
> > > private int id;
> > > /**
> > >  * zipcode of location
> > >  */
> > > private String plz;
> > >
> > > Is there an annotation, that I can use to setup corresponding comments of
> > > fields like my Java Doc above the java field to create a DDL-statement
> > > like
> > > that COMMENT ON COLUMN fi_banken.plz IS 'zipcode of location';?
> > >
> > > It's not an important feature, just want to know if EclipseLink/JPA
> > > supports
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > cinhtau
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