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DataNucleus Core provides the primary components of a heterogenous Java persistence solution. It supports persistence API's being layered on top of the core functionality.

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package org.datanucleus.metadata;

/**
 * Representation of the values for inheritance "strategy".
 * A brief description of the strategies
 * 
 * subclass-table - the fields of this class are persisted into the table(s) of subclasses.
 * new-table - the fields of this class are persisted into its own table.
 * superclass-table - the fields of this class are persisted into the table of its superclass
 * complete-table - the fields of this class and all fields of superclasses are persisted into its own table.
 * 
 */
public enum InheritanceStrategy
{
    SUBCLASS_TABLE("subclass-table"),
    NEW_TABLE("new-table"),
    SUPERCLASS_TABLE("superclass-table"),
    COMPLETE_TABLE("complete-table");

    String name;

    private InheritanceStrategy(String name)
    {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String toString()
    {
        return name;
    }

    /**
     * Obtain a InheritanceStrategy for the given name by value
     * @param value the name
     * @return the InheritanceStrategy found or InheritanceStrategy.NEW_TABLE if not found.
     *     Nothing specified returns null
     */
    public static InheritanceStrategy getInheritanceStrategy(final String value)
    {
        if (value == null)
        {
            return null;
        }
        else if (InheritanceStrategy.SUBCLASS_TABLE.toString().equals(value))
        {
            return InheritanceStrategy.SUBCLASS_TABLE;
        }
        else if (InheritanceStrategy.NEW_TABLE.toString().equals(value))
        {
            return InheritanceStrategy.NEW_TABLE;
        }
        else if (InheritanceStrategy.SUPERCLASS_TABLE.toString().equals(value))
        {
            return InheritanceStrategy.SUPERCLASS_TABLE;
        }
        else if (InheritanceStrategy.COMPLETE_TABLE.toString().equals(value))
        {
            return InheritanceStrategy.COMPLETE_TABLE;
        }
        return InheritanceStrategy.NEW_TABLE;
    }
}