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/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
 * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
 * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or .
 */
package org.hibernate.metamodel.internal;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.metamodel.Type;

/**
 * Defines commonality for the JPA {@link Type} hierarchy of interfaces.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 * @author Brad Koehn
 */
public abstract class AbstractType implements Type, Serializable {
	private final Class javaType;
	private final String typeName;

	/**
	 * Instantiates the type based on the given Java type.
	 *
	 * @param javaType The Java type of the JPA model type.
	 */
	protected AbstractType(Class javaType) {
		this( javaType, javaType != null ? javaType.getName() : null );
	}

	/**
	 * Instantiates the type based on the given Java type.
	 *
	 * @param javaType
	 * @param typeName
	 */
	protected AbstractType(Class javaType, String typeName) {
		this.javaType = javaType;
		this.typeName = typeName == null ? "unknown" : typeName;
	}

	/**
	 * {@inheritDoc}
	 * 
	 * IMPL NOTE : The Hibernate version may return {@code null} here in the case of either dynamic models or
	 * entity classes mapped multiple times using entity-name.  In these cases, the {@link #getTypeName()} value
	 * should be used.
	 */
	@Override
	public Class getJavaType() {
		return javaType;
	}

	/**
	 * Obtains the type name.  See notes on {@link #getJavaType()} for details
	 *
	 * @return The type name
	 */
	public String getTypeName() {
		return typeName;
	}
}