Customize Individual Entities

Use this page to customize each generated entity. Select an item in the Table and columns area, then complete the following fields for each item.

Property Description

Mapping defaults

Use these options to define the table mapping information for the entity.

Class name

Name of the entity class

Key generator

Select the generator used for this mapping.

Sequence name

Enter a name for the sequence.

You can use $table and $pk as variables in the name. These will be replaced by the table name and primary key column name (respectively) when Dali generates a table mapping.

Entity access

Specify the default entity access method: Field (default) or Property.

Domain Java Class

Use these options to define the class information (Superclass and Interfaces) for the entity.

Generate this property

Enable this option to generate the following properties for the selected column.

Column mapping


Property name

The name of the property derived from the column

Mapping type

The attribute type

Mapping kind

The type of mapping for the attribute

Column is updatable

Specify if the column is included in SQL UPDATE statements.

Column is insertable

Specify if the column is included in SQL INSERT statements.

Domain Java Class

Use these options to define the getter and setter scope for the entity.


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