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* Copyright (c) 2010 Oracle. All rights reserved.
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* 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.jpa.eclipselink.core.context;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.TypeMapping;
/**
* 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 2.3
*/
public interface EclipseLinkTypeMapping
extends TypeMapping
{
EclipseLinkCustomizer getCustomizer();
EclipseLinkChangeTracking getChangeTracking();
/**
* Return whether this type mapping specifies primary key columns rather than using
* JPA-style attributes
* (Uses the @PrimaryKey annotation for java, or the primary-key element for xml)
*
* Note: there is no context-level or UI support for this feature as of yet.
* Note: this is a 1.1 feature, but this check has been implemented for all versions
*/
boolean usesPrimaryKeyColumns();
}