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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.boot.model.source.spi;
import java.util.Map;
import org.hibernate.boot.model.JavaTypeDescriptor;
/**
* Source-agnostic descriptor for explicit user-supplied Hibernate type information
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface HibernateTypeSource {
/**
* Obtain the supplied Hibernate type name.
*
* @return The Hibernate type name
*/
String getName();
/**
* Obtain any supplied Hibernate type parameters.
*
* @return The Hibernate type parameters.
*/
Map getParameters();
/**
* Obtain the attribute's java type if possible.
*
* @return The java type of the attribute or {@code null}.
*/
JavaTypeDescriptor getJavaType();
}