JpaEntityInformation.java

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package org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support;

import javax.persistence.metamodel.SingularAttribute;

import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.query.JpaEntityMetadata;
import org.springframework.data.repository.core.EntityInformation;

/**
 * Extension of {@link EntityInformation} to capture additional JPA specific information about entities.
 * 
 * @author Oliver Gierke
 * @author Thomas Darimont
 */
public interface JpaEntityInformation<T, ID> extends EntityInformation<T, ID>, JpaEntityMetadata<T> {

	/**
	 * Returns the id attribute of the entity.
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	SingularAttribute<? super T, ?> getIdAttribute();

	/**
	 * Returns {@literal true} if the entity has a composite id.
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	boolean hasCompositeId();

	/**
	 * Returns the attribute names of the id attributes. If the entity has a composite id, then all id attribute names are
	 * returned. If the entity has a single id attribute then this single attribute name is returned.
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	Iterable<String> getIdAttributeNames();

	/**
	 * Extracts the value for the given id attribute from a composite id
	 * 
	 * @param id
	 * @param idAttribute
	 * @return
	 */
	Object getCompositeIdAttributeValue(Object id, String idAttribute);
}