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

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.ValueBinder;
import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.ValueExtractor;
import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.JavaTypeDescriptor;

/**
 * Descriptor for the <tt>SQL</tt>/<tt>JDBC</tt> side of a value mapping.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface SqlTypeDescriptor extends Serializable {
	/**
	 * Return the {@linkplain java.sql.Types JDBC type-code} for the column mapped by this type.
	 *
	 * @return typeCode The JDBC type-code
	 */
	public int getSqlType();

	/**
	 * Is this descriptor available for remapping?
	 *
	 * @return
	 *
	 * @see org.hibernate.type.descriptor.WrapperOptions#remapSqlTypeDescriptor
	 * @see org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect#remapSqlTypeDescriptor
	 */
	public boolean canBeRemapped();

	public <X> ValueBinder<X> getBinder(JavaTypeDescriptor<X> javaTypeDescriptor);

	public <X> ValueExtractor<X> getExtractor(JavaTypeDescriptor<X> javaTypeDescriptor);
}