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Interface Esi4JEntityResolver

All Known Subinterfaces:

Esi4JBatchedEntityResolver, Esi4JSessionEntityResolver

All Known Implementing Classes:

HibernateEntityResolver

public interface Esi4JEntityResolver

replaces objects with placeholders (e.g. for serialization or queuing) and resolves them for indexing.

See Also:

QueuedTaskExecutor

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	replaceEntity(Object entity)
Object	resolveEntity(Object replacedEntity)
ObjectKey	toObjectKey(Object entity)

Method Detail

toObjectKey

ObjectKey toObjectKey(Object entity)

Returns:

a new ObjectKey for this entity

replaceEntity

Object replaceEntity(Object entity)

Returns:

a resolveable placeholder for this entity. Might be a new ObjectKey

resolveEntity

Object resolveEntity(Object replacedEntity)
                     throws EntityNotResolveableException

Returns:

the replaced entity, the given entity if not replaced or

Throws:

EntityNotResolveableException - if entity cannot be resolved