| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2012, 2020 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: |
| // Blaise Doughan - 2.5 - initial implementation |
| package org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings.converters; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings.CoreMapping; |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.core.sessions.CoreSession; |
| |
| /** |
| * INTERNAL |
| * A abstraction of converter capturing behavior common to all persistence |
| * types. |
| */ |
| public interface CoreConverter< |
| MAPPING extends CoreMapping, |
| SESSION extends CoreSession> { |
| |
| /** |
| * PUBLIC: |
| * Convert the object's representation of the value to the databases' data representation. |
| * For example this could convert between a Calendar Java type and the sql.Time datatype. |
| */ |
| Object convertObjectValueToDataValue(Object objectValue, SESSION session); |
| |
| /** |
| * PUBLIC: |
| * Convert the databases' data representation of the value to the object's representation. |
| * For example this could convert between an sql.Time datatype and the Java Calendar type. |
| */ |
| Object convertDataValueToObjectValue(Object dataValue, SESSION session); |
| |
| /** |
| * PUBLIC: |
| * Allow for any initialization. |
| */ |
| void initialize(MAPPING mapping, SESSION session); |
| |
| } |