org.hibernate.persister.entity

Interface PropertyMapping

All Known Subinterfaces:

Queryable, QueryableCollection, SQLLoadableCollection

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCollectionPersister, AbstractEntityPersister, AbstractPropertyMapping, BasicCollectionPersister, BasicEntityPropertyMapping, CollectionPropertyMapping, CompositeElementPropertyMapping, CompositePropertyMapping, ElementPropertyMapping, JoinedSubclassEntityPersister, OneToManyPersister, SingleTableEntityPersister, UnionSubclassEntityPersister

public interface PropertyMapping

Contract for all things that know how to map a property to the needed bits of SQL.

The column/formula fragments that represent a property in the table defining the property be obtained by calling either toColumns(String, String) or toColumns(String) to obtain SQL-aliased column/formula fragments aliased or un-aliased, respectively.

Note, the methods here are generally ascribed to accept "property paths". That is a historical necessity because of how Hibernate originally understood composites (embeddables) internally. That is in the process of changing as Hibernate has added CompositePropertyMapping

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Type	getType() Get the type of the thing containing the properties
String[]	toColumns(String propertyName) Given a property path, return the corresponding column name(s).
String[]	toColumns(String alias, String propertyName) Obtain aliased column/formula fragments for the specified property path.
Type	toType(String propertyName) Given a component path expression, get the type of the property

Method Detail

toType

Type toType(String propertyName)
            throws QueryException

Given a component path expression, get the type of the property

Throws:

QueryException

toColumns

String[] toColumns(String alias,
                 String propertyName)
                   throws QueryException

Obtain aliased column/formula fragments for the specified property path.

Throws:

QueryException

toColumns

String[] toColumns(String propertyName)
                   throws QueryException,
                          UnsupportedOperationException

Given a property path, return the corresponding column name(s).

Throws:

QueryException

UnsupportedOperationException

getType

Type getType()

Get the type of the thing containing the properties