use generic Class in core, moxy, sdo (#1324)

Signed-off-by: Lukas Jungmann <lukas.jungmann@oracle.com>

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/Array.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
      * paramterized type of the collection when defined using
      * generics.
      */
-    Class targetClass() default void.class;
+    Class<?> targetClass() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Required) The database name of the database array structure type.

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/CacheInterceptor.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@
     /**
      * The Class that will be used to intercept EclipseLink's cache access.
      */
-    Class value();
+    Class<?> value();
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/Converter.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -58,5 +58,5 @@
      * (Required) The converter class to be used. This class must implement the
      *  org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.converters.Converter interface.
      */
-    Class converterClass();
+    Class<?> converterClass();
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/CopyPolicy.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -50,5 +50,5 @@
      * This defines the class of the copy policy.  It must specify a class that
      * implements org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.copying.CopyPolicy
      */
-    Class value();
+    Class<?> value();
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/Customizer.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -40,5 +40,5 @@
      * (Required) Defines the name of the descriptor customizer that should be
      * applied to this entity's descriptor.
      */
-    Class value();
+    Class<?> value();
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/DiscriminatorClass.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@
     /**
      * (Required) The class to the instantiated with the given discriminator.
      */
-    Class value();
+    Class<?> value();
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/NamedStoredProcedureQuery.java

@@ -59,12 +59,12 @@
      * @see #resultClasses
      */
     @Deprecated
-    Class resultClass() default void.class;
+    Class<?> resultClass() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Optional) Refers to the classes of the result.
      */
-    Class[] resultClasses() default {};
+    Class<?>[] resultClasses() default {};
 
     /**
      * (Optional) The name of the SQLResultMapping.

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/ObjectTypeConverter.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -57,13 +57,13 @@
      * (Optional) Specify the type stored on the database. The default is
      * inferred from the type of the persistence field or property.
      */
-    Class dataType() default void.class;
+    Class<?> dataType() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Optional) Specify the type stored on the entity. The default is inferred
      * from the type of the persistent field or property.
      */
-    Class objectType() default void.class;
+    Class<?> objectType() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Required) Specify the conversion values to be used with the object

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/Property.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -84,5 +84,5 @@
      * If specified must be a simple type that could be handled by ConversionManager:
      * numerical, boolean, temporal.
      */
-    Class valueType() default String.class;
+    Class<?> valueType() default String.class;
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/QueryRedirectors.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      *
      */
-    Class allQueries() default void.class;
+    Class<?> allQueries() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * A Default ReadAll Query Redirector will be applied to any executing
@@ -50,23 +50,23 @@
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      * For users executing a JPA Query through the getResultList() API this is the redirector that will be invoked
      *      */
-    Class readAll() default void.class;
+    Class<?> readAll() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * A Default ReadObject Query Redirector will be applied to any executing
      * ReadObjectQuery that does not have a redirector set directly on the query.
      * Query redirectors allow the user to intercept query execution preventing
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      * For users executing a JPA Query through the getSingleResult() API or EntityManager.find() this is the redirector that will be invoked     */
-    Class readObject() default void.class;
+    Class<?> readObject() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * A Default ReportQuery Redirector will be applied to any executing
      * ReportQuery that does not have a redirector set directly on the query.
      * Query redirectors allow the user to intercept query execution preventing
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      * For users executing a JPA Query that contains agregate functions or selects multiple entities this is the redirector that will be invoked     */
-    Class report() default void.class;
+    Class<?> report() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * A Default Update Query Redirector will be applied to any executing
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
      * Query redirectors allow the user to intercept query execution preventing
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      */
-    Class update() default void.class;
+    Class<?> update() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * A Default Insert Query Redirector will be applied to any executing
@@ -84,14 +84,14 @@
      * Query redirectors allow the user to intercept query execution preventing
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      */
-    Class insert() default void.class;
+    Class<?> insert() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * A Default Delete Object Query Redirector will be applied to any executing
      * DeleteObjectQuery or DeleteAllQuery that does not have a redirector set directly on the query.
      * Query redirectors allow the user to intercept query execution preventing
      * it or alternately performing some side effect like auditing.
      */
-    Class delete() default void.class;
+    Class<?> delete() default void.class;
 
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/RangePartitioning.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
     RangePartition[] partitions();
 
     /** The type of the start and end values. */
-    Class partitionValueType() default String.class;
+    Class<?> partitionValueType() default String.class;
 
     /**
      * Defines if queries that do not contain the partition field should be sent

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/ReadTransformer.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
      * be used to create the value to be assigned to the attribute.
      * Either transformerClass or method must be specified, but not both.
      */
-    Class transformerClass() default void.class;
+    Class<?> transformerClass() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * The mapped class must have a method with this name which returns a value

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/SerializedObject.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2013, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
      * The Class that implements org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.SerializedObjectPolicy interface.
      * This class must be specified.
      */
-    Class value();
+    Class<?> value();
 
     /**
      * (Optional) The column that holds the serialized object. By default it's a BLOB column named "SOP" in entity's main table.

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/StoredProcedureParameter.java

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
      * (Optional) The type of Java class desired back from the procedure,
      * this is dependent on the type returned from the procedure.
      */
-    Class type() default void.class;
+    Class<?> type() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Optional) The JDBC type code, this is dependent on the type returned

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/TypeConverter.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@
      * (Optional) Specify the type stored on the database. The default is
      * inferred from the type of the persistence field or property.
      */
-    Class dataType() default void.class;
+    Class<?> dataType() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Optional) Specify the type stored on the entity. The default is inferred
      * from the type of the persistent field or property.
      */
-    Class objectType() default void.class;
+    Class<?> objectType() default void.class;
 }

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/ValuePartitioning.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2011, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2011, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     ValuePartition[] partitions();
 
     /** The type of the start and end values. */
-    Class partitionValueType() default String.class;
+    Class<?> partitionValueType() default String.class;
 
     /** The default connection pool is used for any unmapped values. */
     String defaultConnectionPool() default "";

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/VariableOneToOne.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
      * not specified it will be inferred from the type of the object being
      * referenced.
      */
-    Class targetInterface() default void.class;
+    Class<?> targetInterface() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * (Optional) The operations that must be cascaded to the target of the

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/annotations/WriteTransformer.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2020 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2021 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
      * public Time buildFieldValue(Object instance, String fieldName, Session session).
      * Either transformerClass or method must be specified, but not both.
      */
-    Class transformerClass() default void.class;
+    Class<?> transformerClass() default void.class;
 
     /**
      * The mapped class must have a method with this name which returns a value

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/core/descriptors/CoreInheritancePolicy.java

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ protected CoreInheritancePolicy() {
      * INTERNAL:
      * This method is invoked only for the abstract descriptors.
      */
-    public abstract Class classFromRow(ABSTRACT_RECORD record, ABSTRACT_SESSION session);
+    public abstract Class<?> classFromRow(ABSTRACT_RECORD record, ABSTRACT_SESSION session);
 
     /**
      * INTERNAL:
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ protected CoreInheritancePolicy() {
      * PUBLIC:
      * Return the parent class.
      */
-    public abstract Class getParentClass();
+    public abstract Class<?> getParentClass();
 
     /**
      * INTERNAL:

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/core/mappings/CoreAttributeAccessor.java

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ public interface CoreAttributeAccessor {
     /**
      * Return the class type of the attribute.
      */
-    Class getAttributeClass();
+    Class<?> getAttributeClass();
 
     /**
      * INTERNAL:
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public interface CoreAttributeAccessor {
     /**
      * Allow any initialization to be performed with the descriptor class.
      */
-    void initializeAttributes(Class descriptorClass) throws DescriptorException;
+    void initializeAttributes(Class<?> descriptorClass) throws DescriptorException;
 
     boolean isInstanceVariableAttributeAccessor();
 

foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/core/mappings/CoreMapping.java

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ protected CoreMapping() {
      *
      * @return TODO
      */
-    public abstract Class getAttributeClassification();
+    public abstract Class<?> getAttributeClassification();
 
     /**
      * PUBLIC: