Package org.hibernate.binder

Interface AttributeBinder<A extends Annotation>

@Incubating
public interface AttributeBinder<A extends Annotation>

Allows a user-written annotation to drive some customized model binding.

An implementation of this interface interacts directly with model objects like PersistentClass and Property to implement the semantics of some custom mapping annotation.

See Also:

• AttributeBinderType
• TypeBinder

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	bind(A annotation, MetadataBuildingContext buildingContext, PersistentClass persistentClass, Property property)	Perform some custom configuration of the model relating to the given annotated Property of the given entity class or embeddable class.

Method Details

bind

void bind(A annotation,
 MetadataBuildingContext buildingContext,
 PersistentClass persistentClass,
 Property property)

Perform some custom configuration of the model relating to the given annotated Property of the given entity class or embeddable class.

Parameters:

annotation - an annotation of the property that is declared as an AttributeBinderType

persistentClass - the entity class acting as the ultimate container of the property (differs from Property.getPersistentClass() in the case of a property of an embeddable class)

property - a Property object representing the annotated property