ORM

The BoxLang ORM module allows your BoxLang application to integrate with the powerful Hibernate ORM

BoxLang ORM

The BoxLang ORM module allows your BoxLang application to integrate with the powerful Hibernate ORM. With Hibernate, you can interact with your database records in an object oriented fashion, using a BoxLang class to denote each record and simple getters and setters for each field value:

@entityName( "Auto" ) 
@persistent
class {

  property name="id" type="string" fieldtype="id" ormtype="string";
  property name="make" type="string";
  property name="model" type="string";

  function onPreInsert(){
      log.info( "Inserting new Auto: #getMake()# #getModel()#" );
 }
}

BoxLang ORM also enables transactional persistence, where an error during a save will roll back the entire transaction to prevent leaving the database in a broken state:

transaction{
    try{
        entitySave(
            entityNew( "Purchase", {
                productID : "123-expensive-watch",
                purchaseTime : now(),
                customerID : customer.getId()
            })
        );
        var cartProducts = entityLoad( "CartProduct", customer.getID() );
        entityDelete( cartProducts );
    } catch ( any e ){
        // don't clear the user's cart if the purchase failed
        transactionRollback();
        rethrow;
    }
}

Hibernate Version Support

bx-orm bundles Hibernate 5.6.15.FINAL.

Features In A Nutshell

• Add Object Relational Mapping to any boxlang app with Hibernate ORM

• Use native built-in-functions (BIFs) to update and persist entities to the database (entityNew(), entitySave(), ormFlush(), etc.)

• Supports 80+ database dialects, from SQLServer2005 to MySQL8 and PostgreSQL

• Generate your mapping XML once and never again with the autoGenMap=false ORM configuration setting

• React to entity changes with pre and post event listeners such as onPreInsert(), onPreUpdate() and onPreDelete()

• Over 20 native BIFs:

  • EntityDelete()

  • EntityLoad()

  • EntityLoadByExample()

  • EntityLoadByPK()

  • EntityMerge()

  • EntityNameArray()

  • EntityNameList()

  • EntityNew()

  • EntityReload()

  • EntitySave()

  • EntityToQuery()

  • ORMClearSession()

  • ORMCloseAllSessions()

  • ORMEvictCollection()

  • ORMEvictEntity()

  • ORMEvictQueries()

  • ORMExecuteQuery()

  • ORMFlush()

  • ORMGetSession()

  • ORMGetSessionFactory()

  • ORMReload()

Documentation

This module has quite an extensive documentation, so check out our book on it: https://bxorm.ortusbooks.com/

Introduction | BXORM 1.x

GitHub Repository and Reporting Issues

Visit the GitHub repository for the latest source code and our ORM docs for docs and release notes. You can also file a bug report or improvement suggestion via Jira.