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| * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html. |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * Oracle - initial API and implementation |
| ******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.jpt.core.context; |
| |
| /** |
| * |
| * |
| * 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. |
| * |
| * @version 2.3 |
| * @since 2.1 |
| */ |
| |
| public interface ConvertibleMapping |
| { |
| |
| /** |
| * Return a converter of type Converter.NO_CONVERTER |
| * instead of null if no converter is specified. |
| */ |
| Converter getConverter(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Set the converter type, adding the converter to the resource model |
| * and removing the old converter, if any, from the resource model. JPA 1.0 |
| * support Enumerated, Lob, and Temporal as converter types. |
| * {@link Converter#ENUMERATED_CONVERTER} |
| * {@link Converter#LOB_CONVERTER} |
| * {@link Converter#TEMPORAL_CONVERTER} |
| * {@link Converter#NO_CONVERTER} |
| */ |
| void setConverter(String converterType); |
| String CONVERTER_PROPERTY = "converter"; //$NON-NLS-1$ |
| |
| |
| } |
