| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 1998, 2019 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 |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, |
| * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. |
| * |
| * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause |
| */ |
| |
| // Contributors: |
| // Oracle - initial API and implementation from Oracle TopLink |
| package org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.transformers; |
| |
| import java.io.*; |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.Session; |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.Record; |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.foundation.AbstractTransformationMapping; |
| |
| /** |
| * PUBLIC: |
| * @version $Header: AttributeTransformer.java 11-jul-2006.10:33:44 gyorke Exp $ |
| * @author mmacivor |
| * @since 10 |
| * This interface is used by the Transformation Mapping to build the value for a |
| * the mapped attribute on a read. The user must provide an implementation of this interface to the |
| * Transformation Mapping. |
| */ |
| public interface AttributeTransformer extends Serializable { |
| |
| /** |
| * @param mapping - The mapping associated with this transformer. Only used if some special information is required. |
| */ |
| void initialize(AbstractTransformationMapping mapping); |
| |
| /** |
| * @param record - The metadata being used to build the object. |
| * @param session - the current session |
| * @param object - The current object that the attribute is being built for. |
| * @return - The attribute value to be built into the object containing this mapping. |
| */ |
| Object buildAttributeValue(Record record, Object object, Session session); |
| } |