org.hibernate.property
Interface Getter

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BackrefPropertyAccessor.BackrefGetter, BasicPropertyAccessor.BasicGetter, DirectPropertyAccessor.DirectGetter, Dom4jAccessor.AttributeGetter, Dom4jAccessor.Dom4jGetter, Dom4jAccessor.ElementAttributeGetter, Dom4jAccessor.ElementGetter, Dom4jAccessor.TextGetter, EmbeddedPropertyAccessor.EmbeddedGetter, IndexPropertyAccessor.IndexGetter, MapAccessor.MapGetter

public interface Getter
extends Serializable

Gets values of a particular property

Author:

Gavin King

Method Summary

Object	get(Object owner) Get the property value from the given instance .
Object	getForInsert(Object owner, Map mergeMap, SessionImplementor session) Get the property value from the given owner instance.
Member	getMember() Retrieve the member to which this property maps.
Method	getMethod() Retrieve the getter-method.
String	getMethodName() Retrieve the getter-method name.
Class	getReturnType() Retrieve the declared Java type

Method Detail

get

Object get(Object owner)
           throws HibernateException

Get the property value from the given instance .

Parameters:

owner - The instance containing the value to be retreived.

Returns:

The extracted value.

Throws:

HibernateException

getForInsert

Object getForInsert(Object owner,
                    Map mergeMap,
                    SessionImplementor session)
                    throws HibernateException

Get the property value from the given owner instance.

Parameters:

owner - The instance containing the value to be retreived.

mergeMap - a map of merged persistent instances to detached instances

session - The session from which this request originated.

Returns:

The extracted value.

Throws:

HibernateException

getMember

Member getMember()

Retrieve the member to which this property maps. This might be the field or it might be the getter method.

Returns:

The mapped member.

getReturnType

Class getReturnType()

Retrieve the declared Java type

Returns:

The declared java type.

getMethodName

String getMethodName()

Retrieve the getter-method name.

Optional operation (return null)

Returns:

The name of the getter method, or null.

getMethod

Method getMethod()

Retrieve the getter-method.

Optional operation (return null)

Returns:

The getter method, or null.