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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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// $Id$
package org.hibernate.annotations;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Optional annotation to express Hibernate specific discrimintor properties.
*
* @author Hardy Ferentschik
*/
@Target({ TYPE })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface DiscriminatorOptions {
/**
* "Forces" Hibernate to specify the allowed discriminator values, even when retrieving all instances of the root class.
*
* @return {@code true} in case the discriminator value should be forces, {@code false} otherwise. Default is {@code false}.
*/
boolean force() default false;
/**
* Set this to {@code false}, if your discriminator column is also part of a mapped composite identifier.
* It tells Hibernate not to include the column in SQL INSERTs.
*
* @return {@code true} in case the discriminator value should be included in inserts, {@code false} otherwise.
* Default is {@code true}.
*/
boolean insert() default true;
}