org.hibernate.loader.plan.exec.spi

Interface EntityReferenceAliases

All Known Implementing Classes:

EntityReferenceAliasesImpl

public interface EntityReferenceAliases

Aggregates the alias/suffix information in relation to an EntityReference todo : add a contract (interface) that can be shared by entity and collection alias info objects as lhs/rhs of a join ?

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
EntityAliases	getColumnAliases() Obtain the column aliases for the select fragment columns associated with the described entity reference.
String	getTableAlias() Obtain the table alias used for referencing the table of the EntityReference.

Method Detail

getTableAlias

String getTableAlias()

Obtain the table alias used for referencing the table of the EntityReference.

Note that this currently just returns the "root alias" whereas sometimes an entity reference covers multiple tables. todo : to help manage this, consider a solution like TableAliasRoot from the initial ANTLR re-work see http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/core/branches/antlr3/src/main/java/org/hibernate/sql/ast/alias/TableAliasGenerator.java

Returns:

The (root) table alias for the described entity reference.

getColumnAliases

EntityAliases getColumnAliases()

Obtain the column aliases for the select fragment columns associated with the described entity reference. These are the column renames by which the values can be extracted from the SQL result set.

Returns:

The column aliases associated with the described entity reference.