org.eclipse.persistence.mappings
Class TypedAssociation

java.lang.Object
  org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.Association
      org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.TypedAssociation

All Implemented Interfaces:

Map.Entry

public class TypedAssociation
extends Association

Purpose: Generic association object. This can be used to map hashtable/map containers where the key and value are non-typed primitives.

Since:

TOPLink/Java 3.0

Author:

James Sutherland

Constructor Summary

TypedAssociation()
Default constructor.

TypedAssociation(Object key, Object value)
PUBLIC: Create an association.

Method Summary

Class	getKeyType() PUBLIC: Return the class of the key.
Class	getValueType() PUBLIC: Return the class of the value.
void	postBuild(DescriptorEvent event) INTERNAL: Handler for the descriptor post build event.
void	setKeyType(Class keyType) PUBLIC: Set the class of the key.
void	setValueType(Class valueType) PUBLIC: Set the class of the value.

Methods inherited from class org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.Association

getKey, getValue, setKey, setValue

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map.Entry

equals, hashCode

Constructor Detail

TypedAssociation

public TypedAssociation()

Default constructor.

TypedAssociation

public TypedAssociation(Object key,
                        Object value)

PUBLIC: Create an association.

Method Detail

getKeyType

public Class getKeyType()

PUBLIC: Return the class of the key.

getValueType

public Class getValueType()

PUBLIC: Return the class of the value.

postBuild

public void postBuild(DescriptorEvent event)

INTERNAL: Handler for the descriptor post build event. Convert the key and values to their appropriate type.

setKeyType

public void setKeyType(Class keyType)

PUBLIC: Set the class of the key.

setValueType

public void setValueType(Class valueType)

PUBLIC: Set the class of the value.