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/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2008 Oracle. All rights reserved.
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0, which accompanies this distribution
* and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.
*
* Contributors:
* Oracle - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jpt.eclipselink.core.context;
import org.eclipse.jpt.core.context.JpaContextNode;
/**
* Corresponds to a *CustomConverter resource model object
*
* Provisional API: This interface is part of an interim API that is still
* under development and expected to change significantly before reaching
* stability. It is available at this early stage to solicit feedback from
* pioneering adopters on the understanding that any code that uses this API
* will almost certainly be broken (repeatedly) as the API evolves.
*
* @version 2.1
* @since 2.1
*/
public interface EclipseLinkConverter extends JpaContextNode
{
/**
* Return a string that represents the type of converter.
* Possibilities are below, NO_CONVERTER, CUSTOM_CONVERTER,
* OBJECT_TYPE_CONVERTER, STRUCT_CONVERTER, TYPE_CONVERTER
*/
String getType();
String NO_CONVERTER = "noConverter"; //$NON-NLS-1$
String CUSTOM_CONVERTER = "customConverter"; //$NON-NLS-1$
String OBJECT_TYPE_CONVERTER = "objectTypeConverter"; //$NON-NLS-1$
String STRUCT_CONVERTER = "structConverter"; //$NON-NLS-1$
String TYPE_CONVERTER = "typeConverter"; //$NON-NLS-1$
String getName();
void setName(String name);
String NAME_PROPERTY = "nameProperty"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Return whether the converter definition overrides the definition of the
* given converter
* (e.g. a converter defined in orm.xml overrides one defined in java).
*/
boolean overrides(EclipseLinkConverter converter);
/**
* Return whether the converter is a duplicate of the given converter.
* A converter is not a duplicate of another converter if is the same exact converter,
* if it is a nameless converter (which is an error condition), or if it overrides
* or is overridden by the other converter.
*/
boolean duplicates(EclipseLinkConverter converter);
}
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