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package com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.datamodeling;
import java.util.Map;
import com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.model.AttributeValue;
/**
* A hook allowing a custom transform/untransform of the raw attribute
* values immediately before writing them into DynamoDB and immediately
* after reading them out of DynamoDB, but with extra context about
* the model class not available at the raw AmazonDynamoDB level.
*
* This interface contains both a {@code transform} method and a corresponding
* {@code untransform} method. These methods SHOULD be inverses, such that
* untransform(transform(value)) == value.
*/
public interface AttributeTransformer {
/**
* Parameters for the {@code transform} and {@code untransform} methods,
* so we don't have to break the interface in order to add additional
* parameters.
*
* Consuming code should NOT implement this interface.
*/
interface Parameters {
/**
* Returns the raw attribute values to be transformed or untransformed.
* The returned map is not modifiable.
*
* @return the raw attribute values to transform or untransform
*/
Map getAttributeValues();
/**
* Returns true if this transformation is being called as part of a
* partial update operation. If true, the attributes returned by
* {@link #getAttributeValues()} do not represent the entire new
* item, but only a snapshot of the attributes which are getting
* new values.
*
* Implementations which do not support transforming a partial
* view of an item (for example, because they need to calculate a
* signature based on all of the item's attributes that won't be valid
* if only a subset of the attributes are taken into consideration)
* should check this flag and throw an exception rather than than
* corrupting the data in DynamoDB.
*
* This method always returns {@code false} for instances passed to
* {@link AttributeTransformer#untransform(Parameters)}.
*
* @return true if this operation is a partial update, false otherwise
*/
boolean isPartialUpdate();
/**
* @return the type of the model class we're transforming to or from
*/
Class getModelClass();
/**
* @return the mapper config for this operation
*/
DynamoDBMapperConfig getMapperConfig();
/**
* @return the name of the DynamoDB table the attributes were read
* from or will be written to
*/
String getTableName();
/**
* @return the name of the hash key for the table
*/
String getHashKeyName();
/**
* @return the name of the range key for the table, if it has one,
* otherwise {@code null}
*/
String getRangeKeyName();
}
/**
* Transforms the input set of attribute values derived from the model
* object before writing them into DynamoDB.
*
* @param parameters transformation parameters
* @return the transformed attribute value map
*/
Map transform(Parameters parameters);
/**
* Untransform the input set of attribute values read from DynamoDB before
* creating a model object from them.
*
* @param parameters transformation parameters
* @return the untransformed attribute value map
*/
Map untransform(Parameters parameters);
}