Module org.eclipse.persistence.jpa

Package org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.copypolicy

Class CopyPolicyMetadata

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.ORMetadata

org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.copypolicy.CopyPolicyMetadata

Direct Known Subclasses:

CloneCopyPolicyMetadata, CustomCopyPolicyMetadata, InstantiationCopyPolicyMetadata

public abstract class CopyPolicyMetadata
extends ORMetadata

INTERNAL: Incapsulates common behavior amount class for all the different types of copy policy metadata Key notes: - any metadata mapped from XML to this class must be compared in the equals method. - when loading from annotations, the constructor accepts the metadata accessor this metadata was loaded from. Used it to look up any 'companion' annotation needed for processing. - methods should be preserved in alphabetical order.

See Also:

• CopyPolicy
• CloneCopyPolicy
• InstantiationCopyPolicy

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.ORMetadata

m_project

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	CopyPolicyMetadata(String xmlElement)	INTERNAL: Used for XML loading.
protected	CopyPolicyMetadata(MetadataAnnotation annotation, MetadataAccessor accessor)	INTERNAL: Used for annotation loading.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(Object objectToCompare)	INTERNAL:
abstract CopyPolicy	getCopyPolicy()	INTERNAL:
void	process(MetadataDescriptor descriptor)	INTERNAL:

Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.ORMetadata

getAccessibleObject, getAccessibleObjectName, getAnnotation, getBoxedType, getDatabaseTypeEnum, getEntityMappings, getFullyQualifiedClassName, getIdentifier, getJavaClass, getJavaClassName, getLoader, getLocation, getLogger, getMetadataClass, getMetadataClass, getMetadataClass, getMetadataFactory, getName, getPrimitiveClassForName, getProject, getText, getXMLElement, hasIdentifier, hasText, initXMLClassName, initXMLObject, initXMLObject, initXMLObjects, initXMLTextObject, loadedFromAnnotation, loadedFromEclipseLinkXML, loadedFromXML, merge, mergeORObjectLists, mergeORObjects, mergeSimpleObjects, reloadEntity, reloadMappedSuperclass, setAccessibleObject, setEntityMappings, setFieldName, setFieldName, setProject, shouldOverride, valuesMatch, valuesMatch

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

CopyPolicyMetadata

protected CopyPolicyMetadata(MetadataAnnotation annotation,
 MetadataAccessor accessor)

INTERNAL: Used for annotation loading.

CopyPolicyMetadata

protected CopyPolicyMetadata(String xmlElement)

INTERNAL: Used for XML loading.

Method Details

equals

public boolean equals(Object objectToCompare)

INTERNAL:

Specified by:

equals in class ORMetadata

process

public void process(MetadataDescriptor descriptor)

INTERNAL:

getCopyPolicy

public abstract CopyPolicy getCopyPolicy()

INTERNAL: