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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.param;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.QueryParameters;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;

/**
 * Maintains information relating to parameters which need to get bound into a
 * JDBC {@link PreparedStatement}.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface ParameterSpecification {
	/**
	 * Bind the appropriate value into the given statement at the specified position.
	 *
	 * @param statement The statement into which the value should be bound.
	 * @param qp The defined values for the current query execution.
	 * @param session The session against which the current execution is occuring.
	 * @param position The position from which to start binding value(s).
	 *
	 * @return The number of sql bind positions "eaten" by this bind operation.
	 * @throws java.sql.SQLException Indicates problems performing the JDBC biind operation.
	 */
	public int bind(PreparedStatement statement, QueryParameters qp, SessionImplementor session, int position) throws SQLException;

	/**
	 * Get the type which we are expeting for a bind into this parameter based
	 * on translated contextual information.
	 *
	 * @return The expected type.
	 */
	public Type getExpectedType();

	/**
	 * Injects the expected type.  Called during translation.
	 *
	 * @param expectedType The type to expect.
	 */
	public void setExpectedType(Type expectedType);

	/**
	 * Render this parameter into displayable info (for logging, etc).
	 *
	 * @return The displayable info.
	 */
	public String renderDisplayInfo();
}