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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.sql.ordering.antlr;
import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect;
import org.hibernate.dialect.function.SQLFunctionRegistry;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor;
/**
* Contract for contextual information required to perform translation.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface TranslationContext {
/**
* Retrieves the <tt>session factory</tt> for this context.
*
* @return The <tt>session factory</tt>
*/
public SessionFactoryImplementor getSessionFactory();
/**
* Retrieves the <tt>dialect</tt> for this context.
*
* @return The <tt>dialect</tt>
*/
public Dialect getDialect();
/**
* Retrieves the <tt>SQL function registry/tt> for this context.
*
* @return The SQL function registry.
*/
public SQLFunctionRegistry getSqlFunctionRegistry();
/**
* Retrieves the <tt>column mapper</tt> for this context.
*
* @return The <tt>column mapper</tt>
*/
public ColumnMapper getColumnMapper();
}