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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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package com.speedment.runtime.field.method;

import com.speedment.runtime.config.identifier.TableIdentifier;
import com.speedment.runtime.field.trait.HasFinder;

import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

/**
 * An operation that can produce a {@code Stream} of foreign entities given a
 * single entity. This is useful since it can be passed to an outer stream as
 * the argument for a {@code flatMap()}-operation.
 * 
 * Each streamer contains metadata of which fields it compares to determine the
 * mapping as well as a reference to the foreign manager.
 * 

 * Streamers have the following signature:
 * {@code
 *      Stream apply(ENTITY entity);
 * }
 * 
 * @param      the source entity
 * @param   the target entity
 * 
 * @author  Emil Forslund
 * @since   3.0.1
 */
public interface BackwardFinder 
    extends Function> {
    
    /**
     * Returns the field that the stream references. 
     * 
     * In the following example, {@code bar} is the target:
     * {@code
     *      foos.stream()
     *          .flatMap(foo.findBars()) // findBars returns Streamer
     *          .forEach(...);
     * }
     * 
     * @return  the target field
     */
    HasFinder getField();
    
    /**
     * Returns the identifier for the foreign table that is referenced.
     * 
     * @return  target (foreign) table identifier
     */
    TableIdentifier getTableIdentifier();
}