Package org.hibernate.query.sqm.tree.select

Interface SqmDynamicInstantiationTarget<T>

All Superinterfaces:

BindableType<T>, SqmExpressible<T>

public interface SqmDynamicInstantiationTarget<T>
extends SqmExpressible<T>

Represents the thing-to-be-instantiated in a dynamic instantiation expression. Hibernate supports 3 "natures" of dynamic instantiation target; see DynamicInstantiationNature for further details.

Author:

Steve Ebersole

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default Class	getJavaType()	For DynamicInstantiationNature.CLASS this will return the Class to be instantiated.
DynamicInstantiationNature	getNature()	Retrieves the enum describing the nature of this target.
JavaType<T>	getTargetTypeDescriptor()

Methods inherited from interface org.hibernate.query.BindableType

getBindableJavaType

Methods inherited from interface org.hibernate.query.sqm.SqmExpressible

getExpressibleJavaType, getRelationalJavaType, getSqmType, getTypeName, isInstance, resolveExpressible

Method Details

getNature

DynamicInstantiationNature getNature()

Retrieves the enum describing the nature of this target.

Returns:

The nature of this target.

getTargetTypeDescriptor

JavaType<T> getTargetTypeDescriptor()

getJavaType

default Class getJavaType()

For DynamicInstantiationNature.CLASS this will return the Class to be instantiated. For DynamicInstantiationNature.MAP and DynamicInstantiationNature.LIST this will return Map.class and List.class respectively.

Returns:

The type to be instantiated.