org.hibernate
Interface EntityNameResolver

All Known Implementing Classes:

Dom4jEntityTuplizer.BasicEntityNameResolver, DynamicMapEntityTuplizer.BasicEntityNameResolver

public interface EntityNameResolver

Contract for resolving an entity-name from a given entity instance.

Author:

Steve Ebersole

Method Summary

java.lang.String

resolveEntityName(java.lang.Object entity) Given an entity instance, determine its entity-name.

Method Detail

resolveEntityName

java.lang.String resolveEntityName(java.lang.Object entity)

Given an entity instance, determine its entity-name.

Parameters:

entity - The entity instance.

Returns:

The corresponding entity-name, or null if this impl does not know how to perform resolution for the given entity instance.