| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
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| * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution. |
| * The Eclipse Public License is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * Blaise Doughan - 2.5 - initial implementation |
| ******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings; |
| |
| import org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DescriptorException; |
| |
| /** |
| * INTERNAL |
| * A abstraction of attribute accessor capturing behavior common to all |
| * persistence types. |
| */ |
| public interface CoreAttributeAccessor { |
| |
| /** |
| * Return the class type of the attribute. |
| */ |
| public Class getAttributeClass(); |
| |
| /** |
| * INTERNAL: |
| * Return the attribute name. |
| */ |
| public String getAttributeName(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Return the attribute value from the object. |
| */ |
| public Object getAttributeValueFromObject(Object object); |
| |
| /** |
| * Allow any initialization to be performed with the descriptor class. |
| */ |
| public void initializeAttributes(Class descriptorClass) throws DescriptorException; |
| |
| public boolean isInstanceVariableAttributeAccessor(); |
| |
| public boolean isMethodAttributeAccessor(); |
| |
| /** |
| * INTERNAL: |
| * @return |
| */ |
| public boolean isWriteOnly(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Set the attribute value into the object. |
| */ |
| public void setAttributeValueInObject(Object object, Object value); |
| |
| /** |
| * INTERNAL |
| * @param aBoolean |
| */ |
| public void setIsReadOnly(boolean aBoolean); |
| |
| public void setIsWriteOnly(boolean aBoolean); |
| |
| } |