org.hibernate.impl
Class TypeLocatorImpl

java.lang.Object
  org.hibernate.impl.TypeLocatorImpl

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, TypeHelper

public class TypeLocatorImpl
extends Object
implements TypeHelper, Serializable

Implementation of TypeHelper

Author:

Steve Ebersole

See Also:

Serialized Form

To do:

Do we want to cache the results of entity(java.lang.Class), custom(java.lang.Class) and any(org.hibernate.type.Type, org.hibernate.type.Type) ?

Constructor Summary

TypeLocatorImpl(TypeResolver typeResolver)

Method Summary

Type	any(Type metaType, Type identifierType)
BasicType	basic(Class javaType) Convenience form of TypeHelper.basic(String).
BasicType	basic(String name) Retrieve the basic type registered against the given name.
Type	custom(Class userTypeClass) Retrieve the type for the given user-type class (UserType or CompositeUserType).
Type	custom(Class userTypeClass, Properties parameters) Retrieve the type for the given user-type class (UserType or CompositeUserType).
Type	entity(Class entityClass) Retrieve a type representing the given entity.
Type	entity(String entityName) Retrieve a type representing the given entity.
Type	heuristicType(String name) Uses heuristics to deduce the proper Type given a string naming the type or Java class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TypeLocatorImpl

public TypeLocatorImpl(TypeResolver typeResolver)

Method Detail

basic

public BasicType basic(String name)

Retrieve the basic type registered against the given name.

Specified by:

basic in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

name - The name of the basic type to retrieve

Returns:

The basic type, or null.

basic

public BasicType basic(Class javaType)

Convenience form of TypeHelper.basic(String). The intended use of this is something like basic(Integer.class) or basic(int.class)

Specified by:

basic in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

javaType - The java type for which to retrieve the type instance.

Returns:

The basic type, or null.

heuristicType

public Type heuristicType(String name)

Uses heuristics to deduce the proper Type given a string naming the type or Java class.

See TypeResolver.heuristicType(java.lang.String) for a discussion of the heuristic algorithm.

Specified by:

heuristicType in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

name - The name of the type or Java class

Returns:

The deduced type, or null.

See Also:

TypeResolver.heuristicType(java.lang.String)

entity

public Type entity(Class entityClass)

Retrieve a type representing the given entity.

Specified by:

entity in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

entityClass - The entity Java type.

Returns:

The type, or null

entity

public Type entity(String entityName)

Retrieve a type representing the given entity.

Specified by:

entity in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

entityName - The entity name.

Returns:

The type, or null

custom

public Type custom(Class userTypeClass)

Retrieve the type for the given user-type class (UserType or CompositeUserType).

Specified by:

custom in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

userTypeClass - The user type class

Returns:

The type, or null

custom

public Type custom(Class userTypeClass,
                   Properties parameters)

Retrieve the type for the given user-type class (UserType or CompositeUserType).

Specified by:

custom in interface TypeHelper

Parameters:

userTypeClass - The user type class

parameters - Configuration properties.

Returns:

The type, or null

any

public Type any(Type metaType,
                Type identifierType)

Specified by:

any in interface TypeHelper