de.schwarzrot.data.meta
Interface MetaEntity<N>

Type Parameters:

N - - type of name

All Superinterfaces:

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

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMetaChildEntity, AbstractMetaEntity, AttributeDomain, ColumnDefinition, DatabaseModel, IdxSegmentInfo, IndexDefinition, SchemaDefinition, TableDefinition

public interface MetaEntity<N>
extends NamedEntity<N>

an Entity, that holds information about a database model aspect. To enable database schema updates, it is vital to versionize entries, so each MetaEntity has at least a version, a name and an optional comment.

Author:

Reinhard Mantey

Method Summary

String	getComment() getter of the MetaEntitys comment
String	getLogicalName()
void	setComment(String comment) setter of the MetaEntitys comment

Methods inherited from interface de.schwarzrot.data.NamedEntity

getName, setName

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

Method Detail

getComment

String getComment()

getter of the MetaEntitys comment

Returns:

the comment or null

getLogicalName

String getLogicalName()

setComment

void setComment(String comment)

setter of the MetaEntitys comment

Parameters:

comment - the comment to set