Package org.hibernate

Interface CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy.AttributeInformation

Enclosing interface:
CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy
public static interface CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy.AttributeInformation
Provides CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy.AttributeChecker with meta information about the attributes being checked.

  • Method Details

    • getContainingPersister

      EntityPersister getContainingPersister()
      Get a reference to the persister for the entity containing this attribute.
      Returns:
      The entity persister.

    • getAttributeIndex

      int getAttributeIndex()
      Many of Hibernate internals use arrays to define information about attributes. This value provides this index into those arrays for this particular attribute.

      It can be useful if needing to leverage those Hibernate internals.

      Returns:
      The attribute index.

    • getName

      String getName()
      Get the name of this attribute.
      Returns:
      The attribute name

    • getType

      Type getType()
      Get the mapping type of this attribute.
      Returns:
      The mapping type.

    • getCurrentValue

      Object getCurrentValue()
      Get the current value of this attribute.
      Returns:
      The attributes current value

    • getLoadedValue

      Object getLoadedValue()
      Get the loaded value of this attribute.

      NOTE : A call to this method may require hitting the database in cases where the loaded state is not known. In those cases the db hit is incurred only once per entity, not for each attribute.

      Returns:
      The attributes loaded value