Full Stack Development with JHipster

Entity modeling with JDL

The entity declaration is done using the following syntax:

entity <entity name> ([<table name>]) {  <field name> <type> [<validation>*]}

<entity name> is the name of the entity and will be used for class names and table names. Table names can be overridden using the optional <table name> parameter.

<field name> is the name of the fields (attributes) you want for the entity and <type> is the field type, as in String, Integer, and so on. Refer to http://www.jhipster.tech/jdl/#available-types-and-constraints for all supported field types. The ID field will be automatically created and hence need not be specified in JDL.

<validation> is optional and one or more <validation> for the fields can be specified depending on ...