org.hibernate.search.engine.spi
Interface EntityInitializer

All Known Implementing Classes:

HibernateSessionLoadingInitializer, HibernateStatelessInitializer

public interface EntityInitializer

Used to deal with proxies or lazily-initialized objects.

Author:

Sanne Grinovero (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc.

Method Summary

<T> Class<T>	getClass(T entity)
Object[]	initializeArray(Object[] value)
<T> Collection<T>	initializeCollection(Collection<T> value)
<K,V> Map<K,V>	initializeMap(Map<K,V> value)
Object	unproxy(Object value)

Method Detail

getClass

<T> Class<T> getClass(T entity)

Type Parameters:

T -

Parameters:

entity - an instance or proxy of T

Returns:

the class from the instance, or the underlying class from a proxy.

unproxy

Object unproxy(Object value)

Parameters:

value -

Returns:

if value is a proxy, unwraps it, otherwise works as a pass-through function.

initializeCollection

<T> Collection<T> initializeCollection(Collection<T> value)

Type Parameters:

T -

Parameters:

value -

Returns:

the initialized Collection, to be used on lazily-loading collections

initializeMap

<K,V> Map<K,V> initializeMap(Map<K,V> value)

Type Parameters:

T -

Parameters:

value -

Returns:

the initialized Map, to be used on lazily-loading maps

initializeArray

Object[] initializeArray(Object[] value)

Type Parameters:

T -

Parameters:

value -

Returns:

the initialized array, to be used on lazily-loading arrays