Decouple entity attribute names from generated edm property names

[sebgercas]

Hello, currently, the attibute names of the entity classes are being used as property names in the metadata document of our service (the first letters are capitalized in the generated metadata document). Currently, I am looking for a way to decouple the attribute names in the entity classes from the corresponding property names in the generated metadata document. When looking through this library, I found the annotation "EdmAlias", which I hoped could solve my problem. I added the annotation to one of my fields but the name in the generated metadata did not change according to what I specified in the annotation.

Is there any way to achieve what I want to do?

[wog48]

Hello,

this was done having Domain Driven Design and a Ubiquitous Language in mind. I guess you have good reasons having internally names different from the external names. Unfortunately, there is no annotation that allows you to override the external name. The only option is the usage of the name builder, as described in: How to get own names for the OData artifacts? .

[sebgercas]

Ok, thanks, I will have a look into it. Btw, what is the annotation EdmAlias intended for?

[sebgercas]

We have implemented a solution using a custom name builder. Ticket can be closed.