Package org.eclipse.persistence.mappings

Interface EmbeddableMapping

All Known Implementing Classes:

AggregateCollectionMapping, AggregateObjectMapping

public interface EmbeddableMapping

INTERNAL Common interface to those mappings that are used to map JPA Embedded objects. - ElementCollection -> AggregateCollectionMapping - Embedded -> AggregateObjectMapping This interface was build to ease the metadata processing, namely to avoid costly casting between the mappings above since their common parent is DatabaseMapping.

Since:

EclipseLink 1.2

Author:

Guy Pelletier

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addConverter(Converter converter, String attributeName)
void	addFieldTranslation(DatabaseField sourceFieldName, String aggregateFieldName)
void	addNestedFieldTranslation(String attributeName, DatabaseField sourceField, String aggregateField)
void	addOverrideManyToManyMapping(ManyToManyMapping mapping)
void	addOverrideUnidirectionalOneToManyMapping(UnidirectionalOneToManyMapping mapping)
String	getAttributeName()

Method Detail

getAttributeName

String getAttributeName()

addConverter

void addConverter(Converter converter,
                  String attributeName)

addOverrideManyToManyMapping

void addOverrideManyToManyMapping(ManyToManyMapping mapping)

addOverrideUnidirectionalOneToManyMapping

void addOverrideUnidirectionalOneToManyMapping(UnidirectionalOneToManyMapping mapping)

addFieldTranslation

void addFieldTranslation(DatabaseField sourceFieldName,
                         String aggregateFieldName)

addNestedFieldTranslation

void addNestedFieldTranslation(String attributeName,
                               DatabaseField sourceField,
                               String aggregateField)