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Step 3: Code generation
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
In this step, we're going to use jOOQ's command line tools to generate classes that map to the Author table we just created. More detailed information about how to set up the jOOQ code generator can be found here:
jOOQ manual pages about setting up the code generator
The easiest way to generate a schema is to copy the jOOQ jar files (there should be 3) and the MySQL Connector jar file to a temporary directory. Then, create a library.xml that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<configuration>
<!-- Configure the database connection here -->
<jdbc>
<driver>com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver</driver>
<url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/library</url>
<user>root</user>
<password></password>
</jdbc>
<generator>
<!-- The default code generator. You can override this one, to generate your own code style.
Supported generators:
- org.jooq.codegen.JavaGenerator
- org.jooq.codegen.KotlinGenerator
- org.jooq.codegen.ScalaGenerator
- org.jooq.codegen.Scala3Generator
Defaults to org.jooq.codegen.JavaGenerator -->
<name>org.jooq.codegen.JavaGenerator</name>
<database>
<!-- The database type. The format here is:
org.jooq.meta.[database].[database]Database -->
<name>org.jooq.meta.mysql.MySQLDatabase</name>
<!-- The database schema (or in the absence of schema support, in your RDBMS this
can be the owner, user, database name) to be generated -->
<inputSchema>library</inputSchema>
<!-- All elements that are generated from your schema
(A Java regular expression. Use the pipe to separate several expressions)
Watch out for case-sensitivity. Depending on your database, this might be important! -->
<includes>.*</includes>
<!-- All elements that are excluded from your schema
(A Java regular expression. Use the pipe to separate several expressions).
Excludes match before includes, i.e. excludes have a higher priority -->
<excludes></excludes>
</database>
<target>
<!-- The destination package of your generated classes (within the destination directory) -->
<packageName>test.generated</packageName>
<!-- The destination directory of your generated classes. Using Maven directory layout here -->
<directory>C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src/main/java</directory>
</target>
</generator>
</configuration>
Replace the username (<username/> or <user/>) with whatever user has the appropriate privileges to query the database meta data. You'll also want to look at the other values and replace as necessary. Here are the two interesting properties:
<packageName/> - set this to the parent package you want to create for the generated classes. Setting the value to test.generated will cause the test.generated.tables.Author and test.generated.tables.records.AuthorRecord classes to be created
<directory/> - the directory to output the generated classes to.
Once you have the JAR files and library.xml in your temp directory, type this on a Windows machine:
java -classpath jooq-3.19.16.jar;^ jooq-meta-3.19.16.jar;^ jooq-codegen-3.19.16.jar;^ reactive-streams-1.0.3.jar;^ r2dbc-spi-1.0.0.RELEASE.jar;^ jakarta.xml.bind-api-3.0.0.jar;^ mysql-connector-java.jar;. ^ org.jooq.codegen.GenerationTool library.xml
... or type this on a UNIX / Linux / Mac system (colons instead of semi-colons):
java -classpath jooq-3.19.16.jar:\ jooq-meta-3.19.16.jar:\ jooq-codegen-3.19.16.jar:\ reactive-streams-1.0.3.jar:\ r2dbc-spi-1.0.0.RELEASE.jar:\ jakarta.xml.bind-api-3.0.0.jar:\ mysql-connector-java.jar:. \ org.jooq.codegen.GenerationTool library.xml
- jOOQ will try loading the library.xml from your classpath. This is also why there is a trailing period (
.) on the classpath. If the file cannot be found on the classpath, jOOQ will look on the file system from the current working directory.- Replace the filenames with your actual filenames. In this example, jOOQ 3.19.16 is being used.
- If you're using a linux style shell on Windows, but a Windows JDK/JRE, you still need to use semi-colons in your classpath! (
;) In git-bash, you might have to quote your classpath ("jooq-3.19.16.jar;jooq-meta-3.19.16.jar;...")
If everything has worked, you should see this in your console output:
Nov 1, 2011 7:25:06 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Initialising properties : /library.xml Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Database parameters Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: ---------------------------------------------------------- Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: dialect : MYSQL Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: schema : library Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: target dir : C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: target package : test.generated Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: ---------------------------------------------------------- Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Emptying : C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src/test/generated Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating classes in : C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src/test/generated Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating schema : Library.java Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Schema generated : Total: 122.18ms Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Sequences fetched : 0 (0 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Tables fetched : 5 (5 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating tables : C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src/test/generated/tables Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: ARRAYs fetched : 0 (0 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Enums fetched : 0 (0 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: UDTs fetched : 0 (0 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating table : Author.java Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Tables generated : Total: 680.464ms, +558.284ms Nov 1, 2011 7:25:07 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating Keys : C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src/test/generated/tables Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Keys generated : Total: 718.621ms, +38.157ms Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating records : C:/workspace/MySQLTest/src/test/generated/tables/records Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Generating record : AuthorRecord.java Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Table records generated : Total: 782.545ms, +63.924ms Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Routines fetched : 0 (0 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: Packages fetched : 0 (0 included, 0 excluded) Nov 1, 2011 7:25:08 PM org.jooq.impl.JooqLogger info INFO: GENERATION FINISHED! : Total: 791.688ms, +9.143ms
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