/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.relational;
import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
/**
* Models a simple, non-compound value.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface SimpleValue extends Value {
/**
* Retrieve the datatype of this value.
*
* @return The value's datatype
*/
public Datatype getDatatype();
/**
* Set the datatype of this value.
*
* @param datatype The value's datatype
*/
public void setDatatype(Datatype datatype);
/**
* For any column name, generate an alias that is unique
* to that column name, unique across tables, and within
* alias size constraints determined by
* {@link org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect#getMaxAliasLength()}.
*
* @param dialect the dialect.
* @return the alias.
*/
public String getAlias(Dialect dialect);
}