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*
* Contributors:
* 03/27/2009-2.0 Guy Pelletier
* - 241413: JPA 2.0 Add EclipseLink support for Map type attributes
* 04/27/2010-2.1 Guy Pelletier
* - 309856: MappedSuperclasses from XML are not being initialized properly
* 03/24/2011-2.3 Guy Pelletier
* - 337323: Multi-tenant with shared schema support (part 1)
******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.converters;
import org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.DatabaseMapping;
import org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.converters.ClassInstanceConverter;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.accessors.mappings.MappingAccessor;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.accessors.objects.MetadataClass;
/**
* INTERNAL:
* Abstract converter class that parents both the JPA and Eclipselink
* converters.
*
* Key notes:
* - any metadata mapped from XML to this class must be compared in the
* equals method.
* - when loading from annotations, the constructor accepts the metadata
* accessor this metadata was loaded from. Used it to look up any
* 'companion' annotation needed for processing.
* - methods should be preserved in alphabetical order.
*
* @author Guy Pelletier
* @since EclipseLink 1.2
*/
public class ClassInstanceMetadata extends MetadataConverter {
/**
* INTERNAL:
*/
public ClassInstanceMetadata() {}
/**
* INTERNAL:
* For merging and overriding to work properly, all ORMetadata must be able
* to compare themselves for metadata equality.
*/
@Override
public boolean equals(Object objectToCompare) {
return super.equals(objectToCompare) && objectToCompare instanceof ClassInstanceMetadata;
}
/**
* INTERNAL:
* Every converter needs to be able to process themselves.
*/
public void process(DatabaseMapping mapping, MappingAccessor accessor, MetadataClass referenceClass, boolean isForMapKey) {
setConverter(mapping, new ClassInstanceConverter(), isForMapKey);
}
}