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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.converters;
import org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings.CoreMapping;
import org.eclipse.persistence.core.sessions.CoreSession;
/**
* INTERNAL
* A abstraction of converter capturing behavior common to all persistence
* types.
*/
public interface CoreConverter<
MAPPING extends CoreMapping,
SESSION extends CoreSession> {
/**
* PUBLIC:
* Convert the object's representation of the value to the databases' data representation.
* For example this could convert between a Calendar Java type and the sql.Time datatype.
*/
Object convertObjectValueToDataValue(Object objectValue, SESSION session);
/**
* PUBLIC:
* Convert the databases' data representation of the value to the object's representation.
* For example this could convert between an sql.Time datatype and the Java Calendar type.
*/
Object convertDataValueToObjectValue(Object dataValue, SESSION session);
/**
* PUBLIC:
* Allow for any initialization.
*/
void initialize(MAPPING mapping, SESSION session);
}