How could we drop a table without using its class?

[mengdd]

I have this need to drop a table I no longer use.
I want to delete all related codes including the class file.
Also I want to drop this table from db during migration because the table might be existed in old versions.

I thought it could be done if I drop using the table name, but I only found these two APIs available to drop a table:

public static <T, ID> int dropTable(ConnectionSource connectionSource, DatabaseTableConfig<T> tableConfig, boolean ignoreErrors)

public static <T, ID> int dropTable(ConnectionSource connectionSource, Class<T> dataClass, boolean ignoreErrors)

DatabaseTableConfig also need a class object in its constructor.

So I have to provide the class which declare the table.

Now I have two choices:

• Delete the class and let the table left alone in app upgraded from old versions.
• Keep the class and drop table. -> the codebase will look strange to keep these codes.

How could I delete the class and drop the table?

[j256]

You could always issue the command using raw methods. You can always create a fake class with the matching table name to drop it. I considered adding a dropTable(String) method but the issue is that if you created indexes, they wouldn't be removed. Given that you don't do a createTable(String), having a drop table string seems like bad parity.