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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.hql.internal.ast;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;
/**
* Essentially a wrapper around a {@link org.hibernate.persister.entity.DiscriminatorMetadata}
* and the proper sql alias to use.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface TypeDiscriminatorMetadata {
/**
* Get the sql fragment that is used to determine the actual discriminator value for a row.
*
* @return The fragment
*/
public String getSqlFragment();
/**
* Get the type used to resolve the actual discriminator value resulting from
* {@link #getSqlFragment} back into a {@link Class} reference.
*
* @return The resolution type.
*/
public Type getResolutionType();
}