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Generated Interfaces

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition

Note, there are numerous problems related to generated interfaces as can be seen in #10509. A future version of jOOQ might remove support for this functionality.

Every table, view, udt in your database will generate an interface that looks like this:

public interface IBook extends java.io.Serializable {

    // Every column generates a getter and a setter
    public void setId(Integer value);
    public Integer getId();

    // [...]
}

The purpose of these interfaces is to be able to abstract over jOOQ generated records and POJOs.

Flags controlling interface generation

XML (standalone and maven)

Programmatic

Gradle (Kotlin)

Gradle (Groovy)

Gradle (third party)

<configuration>
  <generator>
    <generate>

      <!-- Turn on the generation of interfaces -->
      <interfaces>true</interfaces>

      <!-- Generated interfaces will not expose mutable components of their implementations, such as setters -->
      <immutableInterfaces>true</immutableInterfaces>
    </generate>
  </generator>
</configuration>

See the configuration XSD, standalone code generation, and maven code generation for more details.

new org.jooq.util.jaxb.Configuration()
  .withGenerator(
    new Generate()

      // Turn on the generation of interfaces
      .withInterfaces(true)

      // Generated interfaces will not expose mutable components of their implementations, such as setters
      .withImmutableInterfaces(true)
  )

See the configuration XSD and programmatic code generation for more details.

// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.

// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.

generationTool {
  generator {
    generate {

      // Turn on the generation of interfaces
      interfaces = true

      // Generated interfaces will not expose mutable components of their implementations, such as setters
      immutableInterfaces = true
    }
  }
}

See the configuration XSD and gradle code generation for more details.