Package org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.transformers

Class MethodBasedFieldTransformer

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.transformers.MethodBasedFieldTransformer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, CoreFieldTransformer<Session>, FieldTransformer

public class MethodBasedFieldTransformer
extends Object
implements FieldTransformer

Version:

$Header: MethodBasedFieldTransformer.java 18-sep-2006.16:20:59 gyorke Exp $

See Also:

• Serialized Form

Author:

mmacivor

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected Method	fieldTransformationMethod
protected AbstractTransformationMapping	mapping
protected String	methodName

Fields inherited from interface org.eclipse.persistence.core.mappings.transformers.CoreFieldTransformer

BUILD_FIELD_VALUE_METHOD

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MethodBasedFieldTransformer(String methodName)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object	buildFieldValue(Object object, String fieldName, Session session)
Class	getFieldType()	Return the Java class type of the field value.
String	getMethodName()
void	initialize(AbstractTransformationMapping mapping)	Initialize this transformer.
void	setMethodName(String name)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Details

fieldTransformationMethod

protected transient Method fieldTransformationMethod

methodName

protected String methodName

mapping

protected AbstractTransformationMapping mapping

Constructor Details

MethodBasedFieldTransformer

public MethodBasedFieldTransformer(String methodName)

Method Details

initialize

public void initialize(AbstractTransformationMapping mapping)

Description copied from interface: FieldTransformer

Initialize this transformer. Only required if the user needs some special information from the mapping in order to do the transformation

Specified by:

initialize in interface FieldTransformer

Parameters:

mapping - - the mapping this transformer is associated with.

getFieldType

public Class getFieldType()

Return the Java class type of the field value. This uses the method return type.

buildFieldValue

public Object buildFieldValue(Object object,
 String fieldName,
 Session session)

Specified by:

buildFieldValue in interface CoreFieldTransformer<Session>

Specified by:

buildFieldValue in interface FieldTransformer

Parameters:

object - - an instance of the domain class which contains the attribute

fieldName - - the name of the field being transformed. Used if the user wants to use this transformer for multiple fields.

session - - the current session

Returns:

- The value to be written for the field associated with this transformer

getMethodName

public String getMethodName()

setMethodName

public void setMethodName(String name)