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 * Copyright 2013 Francesco Cina'
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package com.jporm.persistor;

import java.util.List;

import com.jporm.types.io.ResultEntry;

/**
 * @author Francesco Cina 22/mag/2011
 */
public interface Persistor {

    BeanFromResultSet beanFromResultSet(ResultEntry rs, List fieldsToIgnore);

    BEAN clone(BEAN entity);

    /**
     * @param javaColumnNames
     * @param entity
     * @return
     */
    Object[] getPropertyValues(String[] javaColumnNames, BEAN entity);

    boolean hasGenerator();

    void increaseVersion(BEAN entity, boolean firstVersionNumber);

    /**
     * @param propertyNames
     * @param propertyValues
     * @return
     */
    BEAN newInstance();

    void updateGeneratedValues(ResultEntry rs, BEAN entity);

    /**
     * Return whether in the save query there are automatically generated key
     * (for example using a call to a Sequence in the insert query)
     *
     * @return
     */
    boolean useGenerators(BEAN entity);

}