Hi
I’m working on a project where we driver our data model through DDL generation through JPA annotations. So far, this has worked impressively fine. We can generate DDL for various databases and test a lot of cross-database portability stuff quite easily with test-containers.
One thing that annoys me a little too much is the order columns are generated. I did a bit of googling and found a few posts about it (like java - How to maintain the column order when creating a new table using hibernate? - Stack Overflow).
I thought about taking a stab at implementing it myself (perhaps with a custom annotation used to sort the column list before iteration over the columns during DDL generation and with a property that enables the feature. Or perhaps if possible just retain the field order in the java file).
But the codebase is BIG and I would love to hear the team’s opinion about if it would stand a chance to get accepted and perhaps a few pointers on how you would prefer it to be implemented.
Best regards Jens