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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.source.annotations.attribute.type;
import java.util.Map;
/**
* Determines explicit Hibernate type information for JPA mapped attributes when additional type information is
* provided via annotations like {@link javax.persistence.Lob}, {@link javax.persistence.Enumerated} and
* {@link javax.persistence.Temporal}.
*
* @author Strong Liu
*/
public interface AttributeTypeResolver {
/**
* @return returns an explicit hibernate type name in case the mapped attribute has an additional
* {@link org.hibernate.annotations.Type} annotation or an implicit type is given via the use of annotations like
* {@link javax.persistence.Lob}, {@link javax.persistence.Enumerated} and
* {@link javax.persistence.Temporal}.
*/
String getExplicitHibernateTypeName();
/**
* @return Returns a map of optional type parameters. See {@link #getExplicitHibernateTypeName()}.
*/
Map<String, String> getExplicitHibernateTypeParameters();
}