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 * 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.jpa.core.context.java;

import org.eclipse.jpt.common.core.resource.java.Annotation;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.JpaFactory;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.Converter;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.context.LobConverter;
import org.eclipse.jpt.jpa.core.resource.java.LobAnnotation;

/**
 * Java LOB converter
 * <p>
 * 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.
 */
public interface JavaLobConverter
	extends LobConverter, JavaConverter
{
	// ********** adapter **********

	public static class Adapter
		extends JavaConverter.AbstractAdapter
	{
		private static final Adapter INSTANCE = new Adapter();
		public static Adapter instance() {
			return INSTANCE;
		}

		private Adapter() {
			super();
		}

		public Class<? extends Converter> getConverterType() {
			return LobConverter.class;
		}

		@Override
		protected String getAnnotationName() {
			return LobAnnotation.ANNOTATION_NAME;
		}

		public JavaConverter buildConverter(Annotation converterAnnotation, JavaAttributeMapping parent, JpaFactory factory) {
			return factory.buildJavaLobConverter(parent, (LobAnnotation) converterAnnotation, this.buildOwner());
		}
	}
}