org.hibernate.jpa

Interface HibernateEntityManagerFactory

All Superinterfaces:

EntityManagerFactory, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

HibernateEntityManagerFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

EntityManagerFactoryImpl

public interface HibernateEntityManagerFactory
extends EntityManagerFactory, Serializable

Contract giving access to the underlying SessionFactory from an EntityManagerFactory

Author:

Gavin King

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T> List<EntityGraph<? super T>>	findEntityGraphsByType(Class<T> entityClass) Find all EntityGraphs associated with a given entity type.
String	getEntityManagerFactoryName() Returns the name of the factory.
EntityType	getEntityTypeByName(String entityName) Find an entity type by name
SessionFactoryImplementor	getSessionFactory() Obtain the underlying Hibernate SessionFactory.

Methods inherited from interface javax.persistence.EntityManagerFactory

addNamedEntityGraph, addNamedQuery, close, createEntityManager, createEntityManager, createEntityManager, createEntityManager, getCache, getCriteriaBuilder, getMetamodel, getPersistenceUnitUtil, getProperties, isOpen, unwrap

Method Detail

getSessionFactory

SessionFactoryImplementor getSessionFactory()

Obtain the underlying Hibernate SessionFactory.

Returns:

The underlying Hibernate SessionFactory

findEntityGraphsByType

<T> List<EntityGraph<? super T>> findEntityGraphsByType(Class<T> entityClass)

Find all EntityGraphs associated with a given entity type.

Parameters:

entityClass - the entity type for which to find all EntityGraphs.

Returns:

A list of EntityGraph instances associated with the given entity type. The empty list is returned in case there are not entity graphs.

getEntityManagerFactoryName

String getEntityManagerFactoryName()

Returns the name of the factory. The name is either can be specified via the property hibernate.ejb.entitymanager_factory_name. If the property is not set the persistence unit name is used. If persistence unit name is not available, a unique name will be generated.

Returns:

the name of the factory.

getEntityTypeByName

EntityType getEntityTypeByName(String entityName)

Find an entity type by name

Parameters:

entityName - entity name

Returns:

the EntityType for the specified name