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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.mapping;
import org.hibernate.MappingException;
import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
import org.hibernate.id.IdentifierGenerator;
import org.hibernate.id.factory.IdentifierGeneratorFactory;
/**
* Represents an identifying key of a table: the value for primary key
* of an entity, or a foreign key of a collection or join table or
* joined subclass table.
* @author Gavin King
*/
public interface KeyValue extends Value {
public IdentifierGenerator createIdentifierGenerator(
IdentifierGeneratorFactory identifierGeneratorFactory,
Dialect dialect,
String defaultCatalog,
String defaultSchema,
RootClass rootClass) throws MappingException;
public boolean isIdentityColumn(IdentifierGeneratorFactory identifierGeneratorFactory, Dialect dialect);
public void createForeignKeyOfEntity(String entityName);
public boolean isCascadeDeleteEnabled();
public String getNullValue();
public boolean isUpdateable();
}