Annotation Interface Nationalized

@Target({PACKAGE,METHOD,FIELD,ANNOTATION_TYPE})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Nationalized

Specifies that the annotated character data should be stored with nationalization support. The effect of this annotation depends on the SQL dialect.

• Some databases support storing nationalized data using their "normal" character data types (CHAR, VARCHAR, CLOB). For these dialects, this annotation is effectively ignored.

  See NationalizationSupport.IMPLICIT.

• Other databases support storing nationalized data only via the specialized, standard SQL variants (NCHAR, NVARCHAR, NCLOB). For these dialects, this annotation will adjust the JDBC type code to use the specialized variant.

  See NationalizationSupport.EXPLICIT.

This annotation may be applied to a field or property or to a package descriptor. When applied at the package level, it acts as a default for every character-typed attribute of every entity or embeddable belonging to the package. This annotation may also be used as a meta-annotation.

See Also:

• NationalizationSupport
• MappingSettings.USE_NATIONALIZED_CHARACTER_DATA