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* Contributors:
* 01/28/2009-2.0 Guy Pelletier
* - 248293: JPA 2.0 Element Collections (part 1)
* 02/06/2009-2.0 Guy Pelletier
* - 248293: JPA 2.0 Element Collections (part 2)
* 10/25/2012-2.5 Guy Pelletier
* - 374688: JPA 2.1 Converter support
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.persistence.mappings;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.helper.DatabaseField;
import org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.converters.Converter;
/**
* INTERNAL
* Common interface to those mappings that are used to map JPA Embedded objects.
* - ElementCollection {@literal ->} AggregateCollectionMapping
* - Embedded {@literal ->} AggregateObjectMapping
*
* This interface was build to ease the metadata processing, namely to avoid
* costly casting between the mappings above since their common parent is
* DatabaseMapping.
*
* @author Guy Pelletier
* @since EclipseLink 1.2
*/
public interface EmbeddableMapping {
public String getAttributeName();
public void addConverter(Converter converter, String attributeName);
public void addOverrideManyToManyMapping(ManyToManyMapping mapping);
public void addOverrideUnidirectionalOneToManyMapping(UnidirectionalOneToManyMapping mapping);
public void addFieldTranslation(DatabaseField sourceFieldName, String aggregateFieldName);
public void addNestedFieldTranslation(String attributeName, DatabaseField sourceField, String aggregateField);
}