Custom reference naming convention in ormlite - servicestack

Question

Is there a way to change the default {PropertyReference}Id naming convention for references and foreign keys ?
For example, I want to do this :
public class Customer
{
[References(typeof(CustomerAddress))]
public int Id_PrimaryAddress { get; set; } // with a prefix
[Reference]
public CustomerAddress PrimaryAddress { get; set; }
}
instead of that :
public class Customer
{
[References(typeof(CustomerAddress))]
public int PrimaryAddressId { get; set; } // standard
[Reference]
public CustomerAddress PrimaryAddress { get; set; }
}
Thank you

Answer 1

You can't change the code convention of OrmLite's Reference Conventions globally, but you can use the [Alias("DbColumnName")] to map it to a different underlying RDBMS Table column.
Overriding Conventions with Attributes
You're also able to use the Foreign Key and References Attributes as your example does to override the conventions, e.g. you can play with this Live Example on Gistlyn:
public class CustomerAddress
{
[AutoIncrement]
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}
public class Customer
{
[AutoIncrement]
public int Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
[References(typeof(CustomerAddress))]
public int Id_PrimaryAddress { get; set; } // with a prefix
[Reference]
public CustomerAddress PrimaryAddress { get; set; }
}
db.CreateTable<Customer>();
db.CreateTable<CustomerAddress>();
var customer = new Customer
{
Name = "The Customer",
PrimaryAddress = new CustomerAddress {
Address = "1 Home Street",
Country = "US"
},
};
db.Save(customer, references:true);
Where you can load it and its references and view it with:
var c = db.LoadSelect<Customer>(x => x.Name == "The Customer");
c.PrintDump();
Which will output:
[
{
Id: 1,
Name: The Customer,
Id_PrimaryAddress: 1,
PrimaryAddress:
{
Id: 1,
Address: 1 Home Street,
Country: US
}
}
]