DatastoreFieldMapper.java example

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/*
   Copyright 2013 Rene Nowak 

   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package at.ac.tuwien.infosys.jcloudscale.datastore.hibernate.mapping;


import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.jcloudscale.datastore.annotations.Datastore;
import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.jcloudscale.datastore.hibernate.dto.DatastoreFieldDto;
import at.ac.tuwien.infosys.jcloudscale.datastore.hibernate.model.DatastoreModel;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

public interface DatastoreFieldMapper {

    /**
     * Map a given {java.lang.reflect.Field} to a DatastoreFieldDto
     *
     * @param field field to map
     * @param object Object containing the field
     * @param datastoreAnnotation Datastore Annotation for the given field
     * @return DatastoreFieldDto for given field
     */
    DatastoreFieldDto map(Field field, Object object, Datastore datastoreAnnotation);

    /**
     * Create a datastore model object from the given DatastoreFieldDto
     *
     * @param datastoreFieldDto given DatastoreFieldDto
     * @return datastore model object
     */
    DatastoreModel convertToDatastoreModel(DatastoreFieldDto datastoreFieldDto);
}