Hi Chris,
OpenJPA provides APIs that allow you to interrogate class mappings. Using a
direct approach (OpenJPA resolves class mapping and metadata as part of
creating an emf/em), this code gives you access to the primary and foreign
keys of an entity via the schema information stored in the mapping.
import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta.ClassMapping;
import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.Column;
import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.ForeignKey;
import org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.PrimaryKey;
import org.apache.openjpa.persistence.JPAFacadeHelper;
...
EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();
ClassMapping clsMapping =
(ClassMapping)JPAFacadeHelper.getMetaData(em, SomeEntity.class);
ForeignKey[] fks = clsMapping.getTable().getForeignKeys();
PrimaryKey pk = clsMapping.getTable().getPrimaryKey();
hth,
-Jeremy
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Christopher Giblin <c...@zurich.ibm.com>wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I defined object-relational mappings in orm.xml. Works fine.
>
> Is an API available which allows querying of the orm definition for a given
> object? I am programming with reflection and would like to know, given an
> object, which of its attributes are primary or foreign keys.
>
> Thanks, chris
>
>
