org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings.CoreAttributeAccessor Maven / Gradle / Ivy
Go to download
Show more of this group Show more artifacts with this name
Show all versions of org.eclipse.persistence.core Show documentation
Show all versions of org.eclipse.persistence.core Show documentation
EclipseLink build based upon Git transaction ecdf3c32c4
/*
* Copyright (c) 2012, 2018 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 v. 2.0 which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
* or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
*/
// 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);
}