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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.binding;
import org.hibernate.MappingException;
/**
* The inheritance type for a given entity.
* <p>
* Note, we are not using the JPA enum, because we need the ability to extend the types if we need to.
*
* @author Hardy Ferentschik
*/
public enum InheritanceType {
JOINED,
SINGLE_TABLE,
TABLE_PER_CLASS,
NO_INHERITANCE;
/**
* @param jpaType The JPA inheritance type
*
* @return The inheritance type of this class.
*/
public static InheritanceType get(javax.persistence.InheritanceType jpaType) {
switch ( jpaType ) {
case SINGLE_TABLE: {
return InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE;
}
case JOINED: {
return InheritanceType.JOINED;
}
case TABLE_PER_CLASS: {
return InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS;
}
default: {
throw new MappingException( "Unknown jpa inheritance type:" + jpaType.name() );
}
}
}
}