Getting the Alias of a View Object Attribute

there was a time that I needed to map View Object attributes' DB column names with attribute names. However when you define a transient attribute, there will be no column name defined for it - so I resorted using the alias. Even if an attribute is not mapped to SQL the alias attribute will always be accessible.

the critical thing to note is that when you use the OAViewObject.getAttributeDefs() method, you will get an AttributeDef array which doesn't outright define the alias attribute. You need to cast it back to a ViewAttributeDefImpl object in order to make the method getAliasName() available.