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A Speedment bundle that shades all dependencies into one jar. This is useful when deploying an application on a server.

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 *
 * Copyright (c) 2006-2017, Speedment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); You may not
 * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
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package com.speedment.runtime.field.method;

import java.util.function.Function;

/**
 *
 * @param    the entity type
 * 
 * @author  Emil Forslund
 * @since   3.0.0
 */
public interface Getter {
    
    /**
     * A generic (untyped) get method.
     * 
     * @param entity  the entity to get from
     * @return        the value
     */
    Object apply(ENTITY entity);
    
    /**
     * Returns this object, typed as a {@code Function} method.
     * 
     * @return  this object as a function
     */
    default Function asFunction() {
        return this::apply;
    }
}