/*
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
*
* License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
* See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
*/
package org.hibernate.boot.model.source.spi;
import java.util.Map;
import org.hibernate.EntityMode;
import org.hibernate.boot.model.JavaTypeDescriptor;
/**
* Represents the binding source for an "embeddable" (in JPA terms)
* or "composite" (in legacy Hibernate terms).
* <p/>
* Note that this really models the JPA concept of an Embedded, more
* than the Embeddable.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface EmbeddableSource extends AttributeSourceContainer {
public JavaTypeDescriptor getTypeDescriptor();
public String getParentReferenceAttributeName();
public Map<EntityMode,String> getTuplizerClassMap();
/**
* Indicates whether this embeddable/component is dynamic (represented as a Map),
* or whether a dedicated class for it is available.
*
* @return {@code true} indicates that the composition is represented as a Map;
* {@code false} indicates there is a dedicated class for representing the
* composition.
*/
public boolean isDynamic();
public boolean isUnique();
}