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Generated Interfaces

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

Note, there are numerous problems related to generated interfaces as can be seen in #10509. A future version of jOOQ might remove support for this functionality.

Every table, view, udt in your database will generate an interface that looks like this:

public interface IBook extends java.io.Serializable {

    // Every column generates a getter and a setter
    public void setId(Integer value);
    public Integer getId();
    
    // [...]
}

The purpose of these interfaces is to be able to abstract over jOOQ generated records and POJOs.

Flags controlling interface generation

XML (standalone and maven)

Programmatic

Gradle

<configuration>
  <generator>
    <generate>
    
      <!-- Turn on the generation of interfaces -->
      <interfaces>true</interfaces>
    
      <!-- Generated interfaces will not expose mutable components of their implementations, such as setters -->
      <immutableInterfaces>true</immutableInterfaces>
    
      <!-- Whether generated interfaces are Serializable -->
      <serializableInterfaces>true</serializableInterfaces>
    </generate>
  </generator>
</configuration>

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

new org.jooq.meta.jaxb.Configuration()
  .withGenerator(
    new Generate()

      // Turn on the generation of interfaces
      .withInterfaces(true)

      // Generated interfaces will not expose mutable components of their implementations, such as setters
      .withImmutableInterfaces(true)

      // Whether generated interfaces are Serializable
      .withSerializableInterfaces(true)
  )

See the configuration XSD andprogrammatic code generation for more details.

generationTool {
  generator {
    generate {

      // Turn on the generation of interfaces
      interfaces = true

      // Generated interfaces will not expose mutable components of their implementations, such as setters
      immutableInterfaces = true

      // Whether generated interfaces are Serializable
      serializableInterfaces = true
    }
  }
}

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