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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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* Copyright (c) 2008, Red Hat Middleware LLC or third-party contributors as
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* statements applied by the authors. All third-party contributions are
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* distributed under license by Red Hat Middleware LLC.
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* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
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* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
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* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
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* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
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* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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package org.hibernate.metadata;
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import org.hibernate.type.Type;
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* Exposes collection metadata to the application
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public interface CollectionMetadata {
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* The collection key type
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public Type getKeyType();
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* The collection element type
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public Type getElementType();
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* The collection index type (or null if the collection has no index)
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public Type getIndexType();
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* Is this collection indexed?
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public boolean hasIndex();
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* The name of this collection role
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public String getRole();
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* Is the collection an array?
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public boolean isArray();
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* Is the collection a primitive array?
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public boolean isPrimitiveArray();
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* Is the collection lazily initialized?
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public boolean isLazy();