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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.persister.entity;
import org.hibernate.QueryException;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;
/**
* Abstraction of all mappings that define properties:
* entities, collection elements.
*
* @author Gavin King
*/
public interface PropertyMapping {
// TODO: It would be really, really nice to use this to also model components!
/**
* Given a component path expression, get the type of the property
*/
public Type toType(String propertyName) throws QueryException;
/**
* Given a query alias and a property path, return the qualified
* column name
*/
public String[] toColumns(String alias, String propertyName) throws QueryException;
/**
* Given a property path, return the corresponding column name(s).
*/
public String[] toColumns(String propertyName) throws QueryException, UnsupportedOperationException;
/**
* Get the type of the thing containing the properties
*/
public Type getType();
}