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(Quick Reference) # 6.5.2.12 Custom Naming Strategy - Reference Documentation Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari Version: 2.3.8 ## 6.5.2.12 Custom Naming Strategy By default Grails uses Hibernate's `ImprovedNamingStrategy` to convert domain class Class and field names to SQL table and column names by converting from camel-cased Strings to ones that use underscores as word separators. You can customize these on a per-class basis in the `mapping` closure but if there's a consistent pattern you can specify a different `NamingStrategy` class to use. Configure the class name to be used in `grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy` in the `hibernate` section, e.g.

    dataSource {
        pooled = true
        dbCreate = "create-drop"
        …
    }hibernate {
        cache.use_second_level_cache = true
        …
        naming_strategy = com.myco.myproj.CustomNamingStrategy
    }
You can also specify the name of the class and it will be loaded for you:
    hibernate {
        …
        naming_strategy = 'com.myco.myproj.CustomNamingStrategy'
    }
A third option is to provide an instance if there is some configuration required beyond calling the default constructor:
    hibernate {
        …
        def strategy = new com.myco.myproj.CustomNamingStrategy()
        // configure as needed
        naming_strategy = strategy
    }
You can use an existing class or write your own, for example one that prefixes table names and column names:

    package com.myco.myprojimport org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
    import org.hibernate.util.StringHelperclass CustomNamingStrategy extends ImprovedNamingStrategy {    String classToTableName(String className) {
            "table_" + StringHelper.unqualify(className)
        }    String propertyToColumnName(String propertyName) {
            "col_" + StringHelper.unqualify(propertyName)
        }
    }
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