de.schwarzrot.data
Interface ChildEntity<E extends Entity>

Type Parameters:

E - - the type of the parent entity

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<Entity>, Entity, com.jgoodies.binding.beans.Observable, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

NamedChildEntity<A,B>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMetaChildEntity, AttributeDomain, ColumnDefinition, DriveMapping, IndexDefinition, Option, SchemaDefinition, TableDefinition

public interface ChildEntity<E extends Entity>
extends Entity

interface for all children types, that means for entities, that model a 1:n relation and which need to keep the id of the parent instance.

Author:

Reinhard Mantey

Field Summary

static String

PARENT_ATTR_NAME

Method Summary

E	getParent() returns the parent entity instance of this entity instance
Class<E>	getParentType() returns the type of the parent entity
void	setParent(E parent) sets the parent entity instance to the given instance

Methods inherited from interface de.schwarzrot.data.Entity

getCModified, getDefaultOrder, getDtCreated, getDtModified, getId, getMappings, getPersistenceName, getSchemaName, getSkipList, getSystemClass, getUCreated, getUModified, getUniqColumnNames, getUserAttributes, getVariantColumnName, getVariantTypeMap, isDirty, isUserType, isVirtual, setCModified, setDirty, setDtCreated, setDtModified, setId, setUCreated, setUModified, validate

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Methods inherited from interface com.jgoodies.binding.beans.Observable

addPropertyChangeListener, removePropertyChangeListener

Field Detail

PARENT_ATTR_NAME

static final String PARENT_ATTR_NAME

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getParent

E getParent()

returns the parent entity instance of this entity instance

Returns:

an entity

getParentType

Class<E> getParentType()

returns the type of the parent entity

Returns:

the parent entity

setParent

void setParent(E parent)

sets the parent entity instance to the given instance

Parameters:

parent - the new parent entity instance