Full Stack Development with JHipster - Second Edition

Entity modeling with JDL

Entity declaration is done using the following syntax:

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

The <entity name> phrase 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.

The <field name> phrase is the name of the fields (attributes) you want for the entity and <field type> is the field type, such as string, integer, and so on. Refer to https://www.jhipster.tech/jdl/entities-fields#field-types-and-validations for all supported field types. The ID field will be automatically created and so does not ...