Coverage Report - org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.FieldType
 
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FieldType
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 package org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata;
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 /* Copyright 2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
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  *
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  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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  *
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  *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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  *
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  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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  * limitations under the License.
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  */
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 import java.io.Serializable;
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 /**
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  * OJB implements the mapping conventions for JDBC as specified by the JDBC 3.0 specification and
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  * this class representing the jdbc java types of the sql types mappings - e.g.
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  * VARCHAR --> String, NUMERIC --> BigDecimal
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  * (see JDBC 3.0 specification <em>Appendix B, Data Type Conversion Tables</em>).
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  * <p/>
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  * We differ two types of fields, <em>immutable</em> (like Integer, Long, String, ...) and <em>mutable</em>
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  * (like Date, byte[], most SQL3 datatypes, ...).
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  *
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  * @version $Id: FieldType.java,v 1.1 2007-08-24 22:17:29 ewestfal Exp $
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  */
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 public interface FieldType extends Serializable
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 {
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     /**
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      * Returns a copy of the specified persistent class field (e.g. Long, Integer,...).
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      * <br/>
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      * NOTE: The specified field value 
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      * @param fieldValue The field to copy.
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      * @return A copy of the field or the same instance if copying is not possible. Depends on
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      * the implementation.
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      */
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     public Object copy(Object fieldValue);
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     /**
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      * Returns <em>true</em> if the field value hasn't changed.
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      * @param firstValue A field value object.
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      * @param secondValue A field value object.
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      * @return <em>true</em> if the field value hasn't changed.
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      */
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     public boolean equals(Object firstValue, Object secondValue);
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     /**
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      * Returns the sql {@link java.sql.Types} of this field.
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      */
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     public int getSqlType();
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     /**
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      * Dets the associated sql field type of this field.
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      * @param jdbcType The associated {@link org.apache.ojb.broker.metadata.JdbcType}.
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      */
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     public void setSqlType(JdbcType jdbcType);
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     /**
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      * Returns <em>true</em> if the field type is mutable, e.g. a jdbc BLOB field or
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      * jdbc TIMESTAMP field.
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      * @return
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      */
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     public boolean isMutable();
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 }