org.databene.jdbacl.model

Interface DBObject

All Superinterfaces:

org.databene.commons.Named, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

CompositeDBObject<C>, ContainerComponent, DBTableComponent, MultiColumnObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCompositeDBObject, AbstractDBObject, AbstractDBTableComponent, Database, DBCatalog, DBCheckConstraint, DBColumn, DBConstraint, DBForeignKeyConstraint, DBIndex, DBNonUniqueIndex, DBNotNullConstraint, DBPackage, DBPrimaryKeyConstraint, DBProcedure, DBSchema, DBSequence, DBTable, DBTrigger, DBUniqueConstraint, DBUniqueIndex, TableContainer

public interface DBObject
extends org.databene.commons.Named, Serializable

Abstract parent interface for assembling database objects in a tree using the Composite design pattern. The corresponding interface for Composite objects is CompositeDBObject.

Created: 09.11.2010 11:41:09

Since:

0.6.4

Author:

Volker Bergmann

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getDoc()
String	getObjectType()
CompositeDBObject<?>	getOwner()
boolean	isIdentical(DBObject other) tells if an object has the same definition as another one.
void	setOwner(CompositeDBObject<?> owner) sets the owner of the DBObject instance.

Methods inherited from interface org.databene.commons.Named

getName

Method Detail

getObjectType

String getObjectType()

Returns:

the type of the DBObject as used in DDL in lower case letters.

getDoc

String getDoc()

Returns:

documentation of the DBObject if available, otherwise null.

getOwner

CompositeDBObject<?> getOwner()

Returns:

the owner of the DBObject instance or null if no owner has been set.

setOwner

void setOwner(CompositeDBObject<?> owner)

sets the owner of the DBObject instance.

isIdentical

boolean isIdentical(DBObject other)

tells if an object has the same definition as another one.