Metamodel (Hibernate JavaDocs)

All Superinterfaces:

Metamodel

All Known Subinterfaces:

MetamodelImplementor
```
public interface Metamodel
extends Metamodel
```

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods Deprecated Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<X> EntityType<X>`	`entity(java.lang.String entityName)`	Access to an entity supporting Hibernate's entity-name feature
`default EntityType`	`getEntityTypeByName(java.lang.String entityName)`	Deprecated. since 5.2
`java.lang.String[]`	`getImplementors(java.lang.String entityName)`	Given the name of an entity class, determine all the class and interface names by which it can be referenced in an HQL query.
`java.lang.String`	`getImportedClassName(java.lang.String className)`
`SessionFactory`	`getSessionFactory()`	Access to the SessionFactory that this Metamodel instance is bound to.

Methods inherited from interface javax.persistence.metamodel.Metamodel
embeddable, entity, getEmbeddables, getEntities, getManagedTypes, managedType

- Method Detail
  - getSessionFactory
```
SessionFactory getSessionFactory()
```
    Access to the SessionFactory that this Metamodel instance is bound to.
    
    Returns:
    
    The SessionFactory
  - getEntityTypeByName
```
@Deprecated
default EntityType getEntityTypeByName(java.lang.String entityName)
```
    Deprecated.
    since 5.2
  - entity
```
<X> EntityType<X> entity(java.lang.String entityName)
```
    Access to an entity supporting Hibernate's entity-name feature
    
    Parameters:
    
    entityName - The entity-name
    
    Returns:
    
    The entity descriptor
  - getImportedClassName
```
java.lang.String getImportedClassName(java.lang.String className)
```
  - getImplementors
```
java.lang.String[] getImplementors(java.lang.String entityName)
```
    Given the name of an entity class, determine all the class and interface names by which it can be referenced in an HQL query.
    
    Parameters:
    
    entityName - The name of the entity class
    
    Returns:
    
    the names of all persistent (mapped) classes that extend or implement the given class or interface, accounting for implicit/explicit polymorphism settings and excluding mapped subclasses/joined-subclasses of other classes in the result.
    
    Throws:
    
    MappingException