org.hibernate

Interface Metamodel

All Superinterfaces:

Metamodel

All Known Subinterfaces:

MetamodelImplementor

All Known Implementing Classes:

MetamodelImpl

public interface Metamodel
extends Metamodel

Author:

Steve Ebersole

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<X> EntityType<X>	entity(String entityName) Access to an entity supporting Hibernate's entity-name feature
default EntityType	getEntityTypeByName(String entityName) Deprecated. since 5.2
String[]	getImplementors(String entityName) Given the name of an entity class, determine all the class and interface names by which it can be referenced in an HQL query.
String	getImportedClassName(String className)
SessionFactory	getSessionFactory() Access to the SessionFactory that this Metamodel instance is bound to.

Methods inherited from interface javax.persistence.metamodel.Metamodel

embeddable, entity, getEmbeddables, getEntities, getManagedTypes, managedType

Method Detail

getSessionFactory

SessionFactory getSessionFactory()

Access to the SessionFactory that this Metamodel instance is bound to.

Returns:

The SessionFactory

getEntityTypeByName

@Deprecated
default EntityType getEntityTypeByName(String entityName)

Deprecated. since 5.2

entity

<X> EntityType<X> entity(String entityName)

Access to an entity supporting Hibernate's entity-name feature

Parameters:

entityName - The entity-name

Returns:

The entity descriptor

getImportedClassName

String getImportedClassName(String className)

getImplementors

String[] getImplementors(String entityName)

Given the name of an entity class, determine all the class and interface names by which it can be referenced in an HQL query.

Parameters:

entityName - The name of the entity class

Returns:

the names of all persistent (mapped) classes that extend or implement the given class or interface, accounting for implicit/explicit polymorphism settings and excluding mapped subclasses/joined-subclasses of other classes in the result.

Throws:

MappingException