Auto generate record ID class if no explicit @IdClass

[quaff]

Given an entity meets:

1. using composite primary key
2. no @IdClass annotated

For example:

   @Entity
   public class Employee {
      @Id String empName;
      @Id Date birthDay;
      ...
   }

It would be convenient if a record class is generated as implicit @IdClass

   public record EmployeeId(String empName, Date birthDay) {}

candidate names of generated record class:

• EmployeeId
• EmployeePK
• EmployeeId_
• EmployeePK_
• Employee$Id
• Employee$PK

[gavinking]

It's an interesting idea.

candidate names of generated record class

I kinda hate those suggestions though :)

My knee-jerk would be an inner class of Book_, something like Book_.Id_ which does not collide with anything currently defined in 5.1.1. But it does have one potential problem in that in Hibernate Processor, IIRC, we have started using the convention X_.Y_ when you have a static inner class annotated @Entity (which is permitted by the spec, but currently not considered in 5.1.1). Right, @cigaly?

[cigaly]

@gavinking Actually, what I've done was generating separate class file for each (static) inner class, so that X.Y will produce X_Y_. [But there should be not big problem to make it as inner class X_.Y_]
Why not generate something like Book_.Id [or Book_Id] by simply ommiting underscore at the end, so that distinction will be more clear?

[quaff]

I'm voting for Book_.Id.