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Lambda converters

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

In addition to inlining your complete converter definition, you can simplify usage of Converter.of() and Converter.ofNullable() using a lambdaConverter, specifying only the two lambda expressions, where from translates "from the database type" and to translates "to the database type".

XML (standalone and maven)
Programmatic
Gradle (Kotlin)
Gradle (Groovy)
Gradle (third party)
<configuration>
  <generator>
    <database>
      <forcedTypes>
        <forcedType>

          <!-- Specify the Java type of your custom type. This corresponds to the Converter's <U> type. -->
          <userType>java.time.Year</userType>

          <!-- Associate that custom type with your inline converter. -->
          <lambdaConverter>
            <from>Year::of</from>
            <to>Year::getValue</to>
          </lambdaConverter>

          <!-- A Java regex matching fully-qualified columns, attributes, parameters. Use the pipe to separate several expressions. -->
          <includeExpression>.*\.YEAR.*</includeExpression>
        </forcedType>
      </forcedTypes>
    </database>
  </generator>
</configuration>

See the configuration XSD, standalone code generation, and maven code generation for more details.

new org.jooq.meta.jaxb.Configuration()
  .withGenerator(new Generator()
    .withDatabase(new Database()
      .withForcedTypes(
        new ForcedType()

          // Specify the Java type of your custom type. This corresponds to the Converter's <U> type.
          .withUserType("java.time.Year")

          // Associate that custom type with your inline converter.
          .withLambdaConverter(new LambdaConverter()
            .withFrom("Year::of")
            .withTo("Year::getValue")
          )

          // A Java regex matching fully-qualified columns, attributes, parameters. Use the pipe to separate several expressions.
          .withIncludeExpression(".*\\.YEAR.*")
      )
    )
  )

See the configuration XSD and programmatic code generation for more details.

// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
generationTool {
  generator {
    database {
      forcedTypes {
        forcedType {

          // Specify the Java type of your custom type. This corresponds to the Converter's <U> type.
          userType = "java.time.Year"

          // Associate that custom type with your inline converter.
          lambdaConverter {
            from = "Year::of"
            to = "Year::getValue"
          }

          // A Java regex matching fully-qualified columns, attributes, parameters. Use the pipe to separate several expressions.
          includeExpression = ".*\\.YEAR.*"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

See the configuration XSD and gradle code generation for more details.

As always, when regular expressions are used, they are regular expressions with default flags.

The effect on your query user code will be the same as with explicit converters.

For more details about how to match columns, please refer to the section about matching columns for forced types.

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