/*
* 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;
/**
* Highly abstract concept of the index of an "indexed persistent collection".
* More concretely (and generally more usefully) categorized as either:<ul>
* <li>{@link PluralAttributeSequentialIndexSource} - for list/array indexes</li>
* <li>{@link PluralAttributeMapKeySource} - for map keys</li>
* </ul>
*
*/
public interface PluralAttributeIndexSource {
PluralAttributeIndexNature getNature();
/**
* Obtain information about the Hibernate index type ({@link org.hibernate.type.Type})
* for this plural attribute index.
*
* @return The Hibernate type information
*/
HibernateTypeSource getTypeInformation();
String getXmlNodeName();
}