| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2008, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
| * |
| * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the |
| * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, |
| * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. |
| * |
| * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause |
| */ |
| |
| // Contributors: |
| // Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.1 |
| // Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.0 |
| |
| package javax.persistence.metamodel; |
| |
| /** |
| * Instances of the type <code>Type</code> represent persistent object |
| * or attribute types. |
| * |
| * @param <X> The type of the represented object or attribute |
| * |
| * @since Java Persistence 2.0 |
| */ |
| public interface Type<X> { |
| |
| public static enum PersistenceType { |
| |
| /** Entity */ |
| ENTITY, |
| |
| /** Embeddable class */ |
| EMBEDDABLE, |
| |
| /** Mapped superclass */ |
| MAPPED_SUPERCLASS, |
| |
| /** Basic type */ |
| BASIC |
| } |
| |
| /** |
| * Return the persistence type. |
| * @return persistence type |
| */ |
| PersistenceType getPersistenceType(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Return the represented Java type. |
| * @return Java type |
| */ |
| Class<X> getJavaType(); |
| } |