TypeBinder (Hibernate Javadocs)

All Known Implementing Classes:

CommentBinder, CommentsBinder
```
@Incubating
public interface TypeBinder<A extends Annotation>
```
Allows a user-written annotation to drive some customized model binding.
An implementation of this interface interacts directly with model objects like PersistentClass and Component to implement the semantics of some custom mapping annotation.

See Also:

TypeBinderType

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`bind(A annotation, MetadataBuildingContext buildingContext, Component embeddableClass)`	Perform some custom configuration of the model relating to the given annotated `embeddable class`.
`void`	`bind(A annotation, MetadataBuildingContext buildingContext, PersistentClass persistentClass)`	Perform some custom configuration of the model relating to the given annotated `entity class`.

- Method Detail
  - bind
```
void bind(A annotation,
          MetadataBuildingContext buildingContext,
          PersistentClass persistentClass)
```
    Perform some custom configuration of the model relating to the given annotated entity class.
    
    Parameters:
    
    annotation - an annotation of the entity class that is declared as an TypeBinderType
    
    persistentClass - the entity class
  - bind
```
void bind(A annotation,
          MetadataBuildingContext buildingContext,
          Component embeddableClass)
```
    Perform some custom configuration of the model relating to the given annotated embeddable class.
    
    Parameters:
    
    annotation - an annotation of the embeddable class that is declared as an TypeBinderType
    
    embeddableClass - the embeddable class