/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
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package org.hibernate.type;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* Additional contract for primitive / primitive wrapper types.
*
* @author Gavin King
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface PrimitiveType<T> extends LiteralType<T> {
/**
* Retrieve the primitive counterpart to the wrapper type identified by
* {@link org.hibernate.type.Type#getReturnedClass()}.
*
* @return The primitive Java type.
*/
public abstract Class getPrimitiveClass();
/**
* Retrieve the string representation of the given value.
*
* @param value The value to be stringified.
*
* @return The string representation
*/
public String toString(T value);
/**
* Get this type's default value.
*
* @return The default value.
*/
public abstract Serializable getDefaultValue();
}