/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.source.binder;
/**
* Describes incoming {@link org.hibernate.mapping.MetaAttribute} values. This is only from {@code hbm} via the
* {@code <meta/>} element(s).
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface MetaAttributeSource {
/**
* Obtain the supplied meta-attribute name
*
* @return The meta-attribute name
*/
public String getName();
/**
* Obtain the supplied meta-attribute value.
*
* @return The meta-attribute value
*/
public String getValue();
/**
* Is the meta-attribute value inheritable?
*
* @return Is the value inheritable?
*/
public boolean isInheritable();
}