/*
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Sun Microsystems. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0
* which accompanies this distribution.
* The Eclipse Public License is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
* and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* Contributors:
* Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.0 - Version 2.0 (October 1, 2009)
* Specification available from http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
*/
// $Id: EmbeddedId.java 20957 2011-06-13 09:58:51Z stliu $
package javax.persistence;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
/**
* Applied to a persistent field or property of an entity
* class or mapped superclass to denote a composite primary
* key that is an embeddable class. The embeddable class
* must be annotated as {@link Embeddable}.
*
* <p> There must be only one <code>EmbeddedId</code> annotation and
* no <code>Id</code> annotation when the <code>EmbeddedId</code> annotation is used.
*
* <p> The {@link AttributeOverride} annotation may be used to override
* the column mappings declared within the embeddable class.
*
* <p> The {@link MapsId} annotation may be used in conjunction
* with the <code>EmbeddedId</code> annotation to specify a derived
* primary key.
*
* <p> If the entity has a derived primary key, the
* <code>AttributeOverride</code> annotation may only be used to
* override those attributes of the embedded id that do not correspond
* to the relationship to the parent entity.
*
* <p> Relationship mappings defined within an embedded id class are not supported.
*
* <pre>
* Example 1:
*
* @EmbeddedId
* protected EmployeePK empPK;
*
*
* Example 2:
*
* @Embeddable
* public class DependentId {
* String name;
* EmployeeId empPK; // corresponds to primary key type of Employee
* }
*
* @Entity
* public class Dependent {
* // default column name for "name" attribute is overridden
* @AttributeOverride(name="name", @Column(name="dep_name"))
* @EmbeddedId DependentId id;
* ...
* @MapsId("empPK")
* @ManyToOne Employee emp;
* }
* </pre>
*
* @see Embeddable
* @see MapsId
*
* @since Java Persistence 1.0
*/
@Target({METHOD, FIELD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface EmbeddedId {
}