Package org.hibernate.query.sqm.tree.select

Interface SqmDynamicInstantiationTarget<T>

All Superinterfaces:

SqmExpressible<T>

public interface SqmDynamicInstantiationTarget<T>
extends SqmExpressible<T>

Represents the thing-to-be-instantiated in a dynamic instantiation expression. Hibernate supports 3 "natures" of dynamic instantiation target; see DynamicInstantiationNature for further details.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default Class<?>	getJavaType()	For DynamicInstantiationNature.CLASS this will return the Class to be instantiated.
DynamicInstantiationNature	getNature()	Retrieves the enum describing the nature of this target.
JavaType<T>	getTargetTypeDescriptor()

Methods inherited from interface org.hibernate.query.sqm.SqmExpressible

getExpressibleJavaType, getRelationalJavaType, getSqmType, getTypeName

Method Details

getNature

DynamicInstantiationNature getNature()

Retrieves the enum describing the nature of this target.

Returns:

The nature of this target.

getTargetTypeDescriptor

JavaType<T> getTargetTypeDescriptor()

getJavaType

default Class<?> getJavaType()

For DynamicInstantiationNature.CLASS this will return the Class to be instantiated. For DynamicInstantiationNature.MAP and DynamicInstantiationNature.LIST this will return Map.class and List.class respectively.

Returns:

The type to be instantiated.