com.mmnaseri.utils.spring.data.domain

Interface RepositoryMetadata

All Known Implementing Classes:

ImmutableRepositoryMetadata

public interface RepositoryMetadata

This interface encapsulates metadata required from a repository for the rest of this framework to function.

Since:

1.0 (9/19/15)

Author:

Milad Naseri (mmnaseri@programmer.net)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Class<?>	getEntityType()
String	getIdentifierProperty()
Class<? extends Serializable>	getIdentifierType()
Class<?>	getRepositoryInterface()

Method Detail

getIdentifierProperty

String getIdentifierProperty()

Returns:

the name of the property that will yield the key to the entities represented by this repository

getIdentifierType

Class<? extends Serializable> getIdentifierType()

Returns:

the type of the key this repository uses

getEntityType

Class<?> getEntityType()

Returns:

the type of the entities this repository represents

getRepositoryInterface

Class<?> getRepositoryInterface()

Returns:

the interface for the repository where actual methods will be defined