PathReference.java

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package com.blazebit.persistence.impl.expression;

/**
 * TODO: documentation
 * 
 * @author Christian Beikov
 * @since 1.1.0
 *
 */
public interface PathReference {

    // Although this node will always be a JoinNode we will use casting at use site to be able to reuse the parser
    public BaseNode getBaseNode();
    
    public String getField();

    /**
     * Returns the type of the path reference.
     *
     * @return The type of the path
     * @since 1.2.0
     */
    public Class<?> getType();
}