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Type.java
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/**
* Copyright (C) 2016 Czech Technical University in Prague
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
* the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
* Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
* later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
* details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package cz.cvut.kbss.jopa.model.metamodel;
import cz.cvut.kbss.jopa.UnusedJPA;
/**
* Instances of the type Type represent persistent object or attribute types.
*
* @param <X>
* The type of the represented object or attribute
*/
public interface Type<X> {
public static enum PersistenceType {
ENTITY,
@Deprecated
@UnusedJPA
/**
* Embeddable classes are logical groupings of state in Java that is "flattened" in RDB. Such mapping seems useless, or at lest of low priority, in ontologies.
*/
EMBEDDABLE,
@Deprecated
@UnusedJPA
/**
* Mapped superclasses help building entities with common state definition. They are not entities. For ontologies this requirement seems useless as creating hierarchies is a natural operation.
*/
MAPPED_SUPERCLASS,
BASIC,
}
/**
* Return the persistence type.
*
* @return persistence type
*/
PersistenceType getPersistenceType();
/**
* Return the represented Java type.
*
* @return Java type
*/
Class<X> getJavaType();
}