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* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, which accompanies this distribution
* and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.
*
* Contributors:
* Oracle - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.orm;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.JpaFactory;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.java.JavaAttributeMapping;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.resource.orm.XmlAttributeMapping;
/**
* Part of mechanism to extend the types of ORM attribute mappings.
*
* Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
* under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
* stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
* pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
* will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
*/
public interface OrmAttributeMappingProvider
{
String getKey();
OrmAttributeMapping buildMapping(OrmPersistentAttribute parent, JpaFactory factory);
XmlAttributeMapping buildVirtualResourceMapping(OrmTypeMapping ormTypeMapping, JavaAttributeMapping javaAttributeMapping, JpaFactory factory);
}