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Full Stack Development with JHipster

You're reading from   Full Stack Development with JHipster Build modern web applications and microservices with Spring and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476317
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen Sendil Kumar Nellaiyapen
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Deepu K Sasidharan Deepu K Sasidharan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Modern Web Application Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with JHipster 3. Building Monolithic Web Applications with JHipster 4. Entity Modeling with JHipster Domain Language 5. Customization and Further Development 6. Testing and Continuous Integration 7. Going into Production 8. Introduction to Microservice Server-Side Technologies 9. Building Microservices with JHipster 10. Working with Microservices 11. Deploying with Docker Compose 12. Deploying to the Cloud with Kubernetes 13. Using React for the Client-Side 14. Best Practices with JHipster 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Editing an entity using the JHipster entity sub-generator


While looking through the generated entity screens, we might realize that there are some minor issues that affect the user experience. For example, on the product screens we have a relationship to a product category but when choosing the product category from the drop-down menu during creation, or when showing the category in the list, we show the category by its ID, which is not user-friendly. It would be nice if we could show the product category name instead. This is the default JHipster behavior but it can be customized while defining the relationships. Let's see how we can make our generated screens more user-friendly by editing the JDL model. This will overwrite existing files, but since we are using git we can easily cherry-pick the changes we made, we will see how this is done in a moment. 

In our JDL, we defined relationships between entities using the following code:

relationship OneToOne {
    Customer{user} to User
}

relationship...
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