/*
* 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.loader;
import org.hibernate.persister.entity.Loadable;
/**
* Metadata describing the SQL result set column aliases
* for a particular entity.
*
* @author Gavin King
*/
public interface EntityAliases {
/**
* The result set column aliases for the primary key columns
*/
public String[] getSuffixedKeyAliases();
/**
* The result set column aliases for the discriminator columns
*/
public String getSuffixedDiscriminatorAlias();
/**
* The result set column aliases for the version columns
*/
public String[] getSuffixedVersionAliases();
/**
* The result set column aliases for the property columns
*/
public String[][] getSuffixedPropertyAliases();
/**
* The result set column aliases for the property columns of a subclass
*/
public String[][] getSuffixedPropertyAliases(Loadable persister);
/**
* The result set column alias for the Oracle row id
*/
public String getRowIdAlias();
/**
* Returns the suffix used to generate the aliases.
* @return the suffix used to generate the aliases.
*/
public String getSuffix();
}