ClassRef


1   /**
2    * JORM: an implementation of a generic mapping system for persistent Java
3    *       objects. Two mapping are supported: to RDBMS and to binary files.
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23  
24  package org.objectweb.jorm.metainfo.api;
25  
26  /**
27   * A ClassRef is a field which is a reference field to another class.
28   * In this case, the name of the referenced class has to be specified,
29   * as well as whether it is a shared reference or not; if it is not,
30   * it is a dependent class.
31   * @author  X. Spengler
32   */
33  public interface ClassRef extends Reference {
34      /**
35       * Returns the Class object which describes the ClassRef entity.
36       * This object is used as the type of a field.
37       *
38       * @return  the Class Object contained by the current class ref object
39       */
40      Class   getMOClass();
41  
42      /**
43       * Returns the name of the class ref.
44       *
45       * @return the name of the class reference meta object
46       */
47      String   getClassName();
48  }
49
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