EmbeddableTypeImpl.java

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 * Contributors:
 *     03/19/2009-2.0  dclarke  - initial API start
 *     06/30/2009-2.0  mobrien - finish JPA Metadata API modifications in support
 *       of the Metamodel implementation for EclipseLink 2.0 release involving
 *       Map, ElementCollection and Embeddable types on MappedSuperclass descriptors
 *       - 266912: JPA 2.0 Metamodel API (part of the JSR-317 EJB 3.1 Criteria API)
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package org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metamodel;

import javax.persistence.metamodel.EmbeddableType;

import org.eclipse.persistence.descriptors.ClassDescriptor;

/**
 * <p>
 * <b>Purpose</b>: Provides the implementation for the EmbeddableType interface
 *  of the JPA 2.0 Metamodel API (part of the JSR-317 EJB 3.1 Criteria API)
 * <p>
 * <b>Description</b>:
 *  Instances of the type EmbeddableType represent embeddable types.
 *
 * @see javax.persistence.metamodel.EmbeddableType
 *
 * @since EclipseLink 1.2 - JPA 2.0
 * @param <X> The represented type.
 *
 */
public class EmbeddableTypeImpl<X> extends ManagedTypeImpl<X> implements EmbeddableType<X> {

    /** Item 54: DI 89: explicit UID will avoid performance hit runtime generation of one */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 8089664013641473274L;

    protected EmbeddableTypeImpl(MetamodelImpl metamodel, ClassDescriptor descriptor) {
        super(metamodel, descriptor);
    }

    /**
     *  Return the persistence type.
     *  @return persistence type
     */
    public PersistenceType getPersistenceType() {
        return PersistenceType.EMBEDDABLE;
    }

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Return whether this type is an Entity (true) or MappedSuperclass (false) or Embeddable (false)
     * @return
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isEntity() {
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Return whether this type is an MappedSuperclass (true) or Entity (false) or Embeddable (false)
     * @return
     */
    @Override
    public boolean isMappedSuperclass() {
        return isEntity();
    }

}