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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.ejb.criteria;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* All nodes in a criteria query tree will generally need access to the {@link CriteriaBuilderImpl} from which they
* come. This base class provides convenient, consistent support for that.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public class AbstractNode implements Serializable {
private final CriteriaBuilderImpl criteriaBuilder;
public AbstractNode(CriteriaBuilderImpl criteriaBuilder) {
this.criteriaBuilder = criteriaBuilder;
}
/**
* Provides protected access to the underlying {@link CriteriaBuilderImpl}.
*
* @return The underlying {@link CriteriaBuilderImpl} instance.
*/
protected CriteriaBuilderImpl criteriaBuilder() {
return criteriaBuilder;
}
}