LifecycleListener.java

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package org.apache.cayenne;

import org.apache.cayenne.reflect.LifecycleCallbackRegistry;

/**
 * A callback interface to listen to persistent object lifecycle events. Note that
 * listeners ARE NOT REQUIRED to implement this interface, and in fact most won't. It
 * exists for type safety and for simplifying listener registration. See
 * {@link LifecycleCallbackRegistry} for details on how to register callbacks.
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
public interface LifecycleListener {

    void postAdd(Object entity);
    
    void prePersist(Object entity);

    void postPersist(Object entity);

    void preRemove(Object entity);

    void postRemove(Object entity);

    void preUpdate(Object entity);

    void postUpdate(Object entity);

    void postLoad(Object entity);
}