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/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
* License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
* See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or .
*/
package org.hibernate.cache.spi.entry;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* A cached instance of a persistent class
*
* @author Gavin King
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface CacheEntry extends Serializable {
/**
* Does this entry represent a direct entity reference (rather than disassembled state)?
*
* @return true/false
*/
boolean isReferenceEntry();
/**
* Hibernate stores all entries pertaining to a given entity hierarchy in a single region. This attribute
* tells us the specific entity type represented by the cached data.
*
* @return The entry's exact entity type.
*/
String getSubclass();
/**
* Retrieves the version (optimistic locking) associated with this cache entry.
*
* @return The version of the entity represented by this entry
*/
Object getVersion();
/**
* Get the underlying disassembled state
*
* todo : this was added to support initializing an entity's EntityEntry snapshot during reattach;
* this should be refactored to instead expose a method to assemble a EntityEntry based on this
* state for return.
*
* @return The disassembled state
*/
Serializable[] getDisassembledState();
}