org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.meta
Interface Joinable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DelegatingJoinable, HandlerFieldStrategy, PrimitiveFieldStrategy, StringFieldStrategy

public interface Joinable

Represents a value that can be joined to. Any column that a user joins to must be "owned" by an entity that implements this interface. The system maps columns to joinables to be able to decompose oids and field values into individual join values on a per-column basis. This allows us to support joins to only some of the columns of a mapping, and to be loose with the ordering of foreign key columns relative to the ordering of the joined-to columns. Having a separate interface for joinables also allows us to perform tricks such as a vertically-mapped application identity subclass transparently transforming columns of its foreign key to the corresponding primary key fields in the base class.

Author:

Abe White

Method Summary

Column[]	getColumns() The columns managed by this joinable.
int	getFieldIndex() Return the field index of this joinable, or -1 if not a field.
Object	getJoinValue(Object val, Column col, JDBCStore store) Return the join value of the given column.
Object	getJoinValue(OpenJPAStateManager sm, Column col, JDBCStore store) Return the join value of the given column.
Object	getPrimaryKeyValue(Result res, Column[] cols, ForeignKey fk, Joins joins) Return the value for this joinable from the given result, using the given columns.
void	setAutoAssignedValue(OpenJPAStateManager sm, JDBCStore store, Column col, Object autogen) Use the given auto-assigned value to set this join value's field on the given instance.

Method Detail

getFieldIndex

int getFieldIndex()

Return the field index of this joinable, or -1 if not a field.

getPrimaryKeyValue

Object getPrimaryKeyValue(Result res,
                          Column[] cols,
                          ForeignKey fk,
                          Joins joins)
                          throws SQLException

Return the value for this joinable from the given result, using the given columns. If the given foreign key is non-null, use the foreign key's columns by translating the given columns through ForeignKey.getColumn(org.apache.openjpa.jdbc.schema.Column).

Throws:

SQLException

getColumns

Column[] getColumns()

The columns managed by this joinable.

getJoinValue

Object getJoinValue(Object val,
                    Column col,
                    JDBCStore store)

Return the join value of the given column.

Parameters:

val - the value of the field for this joinable

col - the column of this joinable whose value to return

getJoinValue

Object getJoinValue(OpenJPAStateManager sm,
                    Column col,
                    JDBCStore store)

Return the join value of the given column.

Parameters:

sm - the instance from which to get the value

col - the column whose value to return

setAutoAssignedValue

void setAutoAssignedValue(OpenJPAStateManager sm,
                          JDBCStore store,
                          Column col,
                          Object autogen)

Use the given auto-assigned value to set this join value's field on the given instance.