Database Metadata
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When you creates an extension is very common the need of a database to store data. You can create tables, but also need to create a bean with Hibernate XML mapping or annotations, a DAO, etc. The other way is creating meta-tables. These virtual tables are part of the OpenKM 5.1 Database Metadata feature. Let's see an example.
Our costumer want us to create a contact management. For this, we are going to create the metadata structure:
INSERT INTO OKM_DB_METADATA_TYPE (DMT_TABLE, DMT_REAL_COLUMN, DMT_TYPE, DMT_VIRTUAL_COLUMN) VALUES ('contact', 'col00', 'integer', 'con_id');
INSERT INTO OKM_DB_METADATA_TYPE (DMT_TABLE, DMT_REAL_COLUMN, DMT_TYPE, DMT_VIRTUAL_COLUMN) VALUES ('contact', 'col01', 'text', 'con_name');
INSERT INTO OKM_DB_METADATA_TYPE (DMT_TABLE, DMT_REAL_COLUMN, DMT_TYPE, DMT_VIRTUAL_COLUMN) VALUES ('contact', 'col02', 'text', 'con_mail');
INSERT INTO OKM_DB_METADATA_TYPE (DMT_TABLE, DMT_REAL_COLUMN, DMT_TYPE, DMT_VIRTUAL_COLUMN) VALUES ('contact', 'col03', 'text', 'con_phone');
In this sample, the meta-table "contact" contains 4 columns:
- COL 0 -> con_id
- COL 1 -> con_name
- COL 2 -> con_mail
- COL 3 -> con_phone
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Actually a meta-table can contain no more than 15 columns. |
An if you go to Administration -> Database Query you can see this new empty table:
