/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.relational;
import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
/**
* Contract for entities (in the ERD sense) which can be exported via {@code CREATE}, {@code ALTER}, etc
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface Exportable {
/**
* Get a unique identifier to make sure we are not exporting the same database structure multiple times.
*
* @return The exporting identifier.
*/
public String getExportIdentifier();
/**
* Gets the SQL strings for creating the database object.
*
* @param dialect
* @return the SQL strings for creating the database object.
*/
public String[] sqlCreateStrings(Dialect dialect);
/**
* Gets the SQL strings for dropping the database object.
*
* @param dialect@return the SQL strings for dropping the database object.
*/
public String[] sqlDropStrings(Dialect dialect);
}