/*
* 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.tuple;
import org.hibernate.Session;
/**
* Defines a generator for in-VM generation of (non-identifier) attribute values.
*
* @author Steve Ebersole
*/
public interface ValueGenerator<T> {
/**
* Generate the value.
*
* @param session The Session from which the request originates.
* @param owner The instance of the object owning the attribute for which we are generating a value.
*
* @return The generated value
*/
public T generateValue(Session session, Object owner);
}