Spring 5.0 Projects

Generating an entity using a model

We have defined the entities in JDL studio. Now, we will instruct JHipster to generate entities, along with database tables and source code. This process involves the following two tasks:

• Exporting the entity definitions
• Importing a JDL file to generate the required artifacts

From JDL-Studio, you can export the definitions as a JDL (.jh) file. JHipster provides a sub-generator that will be used to import the JDL file, with the following command:

jhipster import-jdl <your_jdl_file.jh>

Needless to say, you need to execute this command under the JHipster project directory. Upon successful build and deployment, you will see the School and Teacher entities from the Entities menu. You can also verify that the ...