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* Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0
* which accompanies this distribution.
* The Eclipse Public License is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
* and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* Contributors:
* Blaise Doughan - 2.5 - initial implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings;
import org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DescriptorException;
/**
* INTERNAL
* A abstraction of attribute accessor capturing behavior common to all
* persistence types.
*/
public interface CoreAttributeAccessor {
/**
* Return the class type of the attribute.
*/
public Class getAttributeClass();
/**
* INTERNAL:
* Return the attribute name.
*/
public String getAttributeName();
/**
* Return the attribute value from the object.
*/
public Object getAttributeValueFromObject(Object object);
/**
* Allow any initialization to be performed with the descriptor class.
*/
public void initializeAttributes(Class descriptorClass) throws DescriptorException;
public boolean isInstanceVariableAttributeAccessor();
public boolean isMethodAttributeAccessor();
/**
* INTERNAL:
* @return
*/
public boolean isWriteOnly();
/**
* Set the attribute value into the object.
*/
public void setAttributeValueInObject(Object object, Object value);
/**
* INTERNAL
* @param aBoolean
*/
public void setIsReadOnly(boolean aBoolean);
public void setIsWriteOnly(boolean aBoolean);
}