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* Copyright (C) 2008 EsperTech, Inc. All rights reserved. *
* http://esper.codehaus.org *
* http://www.espertech.com *
* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *
* The software in this package is published under the terms of the GPL license *
* a copy of which has been included with this distribution in the license.txt file. *
**************************************************************************************/
package com.espertech.esper.util;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* Binding from database output column type to Java object.
*/
public interface DatabaseTypeBinding extends Serializable
{
/**
* Returns the Java object for the given column.
* @param resultSet is the result set to read the column from
* @param columnName is the column name
* @return Java object
* @throws SQLException if the mapping cannot be performed
*/
public Object getValue(ResultSet resultSet, String columnName) throws SQLException;
/**
* Returns the Java target type.
* @return Java type
*/
public Class getType();
}