Wish List: Explicit Support for Quoted Identifiers!

Question

Hi,
I know TopLink supports quoted identifiers as long as you manually type them into the mapping workbench or the project file.
This is, however, not a very nice solution from a usability point of view. I'd better like TopLink having an option in the mapping workbench on the project level along the lines of "quote all identifiers" which will automatically put the quotes in when meta data is read from the DB and the project file is generated.
At the moment, I have a self-written XSL stylesheet that puts the quotes in the XML file AFTER the project is generated from the workbench. If anyone is interested, I will make it available, but there's no guarantee that it will work with your projects - its just a "worksforme"-tested thing.

Answer 1

In the end, it doesn't matter to much to me if a
quoted identifier feature is implemented in the
runtime or in the workbench, while an implementation
in the workbench might be more flexible, as there
could be options on different levels of a project to
activate or deactivate identifier quoting, for
example, there could be a project level option, a
descriptor level option, or even an attribute-level
option. The runtime already seems to handle it
cleanly if you give it the identifiers in the quoted
form in the project.xml, even though the
"attribute-->direct"-Notation is a bit tricky...Thanks for the details! I'll add this to the enhancement request list.
--Shaun