/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
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package org.hibernate.id;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
/**
* An optional contract for {@link org.hibernate.type.Type} or
* {@link org.hibernate.usertype.UserType} implementations to handle generated
* id values any way they see fit as opposed to being limited to the discrete set of
* numeric types handled by {@link IdentifierGeneratorHelper}
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface ResultSetIdentifierConsumer {
/**
* Given a result set, consume/extract the necessary values and construct an
* appropriate identifier value.
*
* @param resultSet The result set containing the value(s) to be used in building
* the identifier value.
* @return The identifier value.
*/
public Serializable consumeIdentifier(ResultSet resultSet);
}