org.eclipse.persistence.sessions
Class ObjectCopyingPolicy

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.persistence.queries.AttributeGroup
      org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.CopyGroup
          org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.ObjectCopyingPolicy

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

Deprecated. use CopyGroup instead.

public class ObjectCopyingPolicy
extends CopyGroup

Purpose: Define how an object is to be copied.

Description: This is for usage with the object copying feature, not the unit of work. This is useful for copying an entire object graph as part of the host application's logic.

Responsibilities:

• Indicate through CASCADE levels the depth relationships will copied.
• Indicate if PK attributes should be copied with existing value or should be reset.

See Also:

Session.copyObject(Object, ObjectCopyingPolicy), Serialized Form

Since:

TOPLink/Java 3.0

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.CopyGroup

CASCADE_ALL_PARTS, CASCADE_PRIVATE_PARTS, CASCADE_TREE, copies, depth, NO_CASCADE, session, shouldResetPrimaryKey, shouldResetVersion

Fields inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.queries.AttributeGroup

items

Constructor Summary

ObjectCopyingPolicy()
Deprecated. PUBLIC: Return a new copying policy.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.CopyGroup

addAttribute, addAttribute, cascadeAllParts, cascadePrivateParts, cascadeTree, clone, dontCascade, getCopies, getDepth, getGroup, getSession, isCopyGroup, newGroup, setCopies, setDepth, setSession, setShouldResetPrimaryKey, setShouldResetVersion, shouldCascade, shouldCascadeAllParts, shouldCascadePrivateParts, shouldCascadeTree, shouldResetPrimaryKey, shouldResetVersion, toStringAdditionalInfo

Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.queries.AttributeGroup

addAttribute, addAttributes, containsAttribute, convert, equals, getAttributeNames, getItem, getItems, getName, hasItems, isFetchGroup, isLoadGroup, isSupersetOf, newItem, removeAttribute, setAttributeNames, setName, toCopyGroup, toFetchGroup, toLoadGroup, toString, toStringItems, toStringPath

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ObjectCopyingPolicy

public ObjectCopyingPolicy()

Deprecated.

PUBLIC: Return a new copying policy. By default the policy cascades privately owned parts and nulls primary keys.