org.qi4j.api.entity.association
Class GenericAssociationInfo

java.lang.Object
  org.qi4j.api.entity.association.GenericAssociationInfo

All Implemented Interfaces:

AssociationInfo

public final class GenericAssociationInfo
extends Object
implements AssociationInfo

Constructor Summary

GenericAssociationInfo(MetaInfo infos, boolean immutable, boolean aggregated, QualifiedName qualifiedName, Type type)

GenericAssociationInfo(Method accessor, MetaInfo metainfo)

GenericAssociationInfo(Method accessor, MetaInfo metainfo, boolean immutable)

Method Summary

static Type	getAssociationType(Method accessor)
static Type	getAssociationType(Type methodReturnType)
boolean	isAggregated()
boolean	isImmutable()
<T> T	metaInfo(Class<T> infoType) Get metadata that implements the given type
String	name()
QualifiedName	qualifiedName() Get the qualified name of the association.
Type	type() Get the type of the associated Entities

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GenericAssociationInfo

public GenericAssociationInfo(MetaInfo infos,
                              boolean immutable,
                              boolean aggregated,
                              QualifiedName qualifiedName,
                              Type type)

GenericAssociationInfo

public GenericAssociationInfo(Method accessor,
                              MetaInfo metainfo)

GenericAssociationInfo

public GenericAssociationInfo(Method accessor,
                              MetaInfo metainfo,
                              boolean immutable)

Method Detail

getAssociationType

public static Type getAssociationType(Method accessor)

getAssociationType

public static Type getAssociationType(Type methodReturnType)

metaInfo

public <T> T metaInfo(Class<T> infoType)

Description copied from interface: AssociationInfo

Get metadata that implements the given type

Specified by:

metaInfo in interface AssociationInfo

Parameters:

infoType - the type of metadata to be returned

Returns:

the metadata for the given type, or null if no such metadata has been registered

name

public String name()

qualifiedName

public QualifiedName qualifiedName()

Description copied from interface: AssociationInfo

Get the qualified name of the association. This is constructed by concatenating the name of the declaring interface with the name of the method, using ":" as separator. Example:
com.somecompany.MyInterface with association method
Association someAssociation();
will have the qualified name:
com.somecompany.MyInterface:someAssociation

Specified by:

qualifiedName in interface AssociationInfo

Returns:

the qualified name of the association

type

public Type type()

Description copied from interface: AssociationInfo

Get the type of the associated Entities

Specified by:

type in interface AssociationInfo

Returns:

the type of the associated Entities

isImmutable

public boolean isImmutable()

Specified by:

isImmutable in interface AssociationInfo

isAggregated

public boolean isAggregated()

Specified by:

isAggregated in interface AssociationInfo