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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Comparator;

import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.WrapperOptions;

/**
 * Descriptor for the Java side of a value mapping.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface JavaTypeDescriptor<T> extends Serializable {
	/**
	 * Retrieve the Java type handled here.
	 *
	 * @return The Java type.
	 */
	public Class<T> getJavaTypeClass();

	/**
	 * Retrieve the mutability plan for this Java type.
	 *
	 * @return The mutability plan
	 */
	public MutabilityPlan<T> getMutabilityPlan();

	/**
	 * Retrieve the natural comparator for this type.
	 *
	 * @return The natural comparator.
	 */
	public Comparator<T> getComparator();

	/**
	 * Extract a proper hash code for this value.
	 *
	 * @param value The value for which to extract a hash code.
	 *
	 * @return The extracted hash code.
	 */
	public int extractHashCode(T value);

	/**
	 * Determine if two instances are equal
	 *
	 * @param one One instance
	 * @param another The other instance
	 *
	 * @return True if the two are considered equal; false otherwise.
	 */
	public boolean areEqual(T one, T another);

	/**
	 * Extract a loggable representation of the value.
	 *
	 * @param value The value for which to extract a loggable representation.
	 *
	 * @return The loggable representation
	 */
	public String extractLoggableRepresentation(T value);

	public String toString(T value);

	public T fromString(String string);

	/**
	 * Unwrap an instance of our handled Java type into the requested type.
	 * <p/>
	 * As an example, if this is a {@code JavaTypeDescriptor<Integer>} and we are asked to unwrap
	 * the {@code Integer value} as a {@code Long} we would return something like
	 * <code>Long.valueOf( value.longValue() )</code>.
	 * <p/>
	 * Intended use is during {@link java.sql.PreparedStatement} binding.
	 *
	 * @param value The value to unwrap
	 * @param type The type as which to unwrap
	 * @param options The options
	 * @param <X> The conversion type.
	 *
	 * @return The unwrapped value.
	 */
	public <X> X unwrap(T value, Class<X> type, WrapperOptions options);

	/**
	 * Wrap a value as our handled Java type.
	 * <p/>
	 * Intended use is during {@link java.sql.ResultSet} extraction.
	 *
	 * @param value The value to wrap.
	 * @param options The options
	 * @param <X> The conversion type.
	 *
	 * @return The wrapped value.
	 */
	public <X> T wrap(X value, WrapperOptions options);
}