Entity mapping

Example entity

Tentacolous uses the entity to know which database table it should listen to.

@Entity
@Table(name = "person")
public class Person {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    private String name;
    private String lastname;
    private String email;

    public Person() {
    }

    // getters and setters
}

If the entity has @Table(name = "person"), Tentacolous listens to the person table. If it does not have @Table, Tentacolous infers the table name from the class name.

Entity	Inferred table
Person	person
UserAccount	user_account
PaymentTransaction	payment_transaction

That is why the annotations do not have a table parameter: the selected entity already represents the table.