de.espirit.or.schema
Interface Entity

All Superinterfaces:

Map<String,Object>

public interface Entity
extends Map<String,Object>

Since:

4.0.17

Nested Class Summary

static class

Entity.PersistentState Define all possible states of an entity.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface java.util.Map

Map.Entry<K,V>

Method Summary

Entity	copy() Copies this entity.
void	copyFrom(Entity entity) Copy the values of the given entity to this entity.
Collection<String>	getAttributeNames() Return a collection of the attributes declared for this entity.
EntityType	getEntityType() Return the type of this entity
de.espirit.or.schema.Identifier	getIdentifier() Return the identifier of this entity.
KeyValue	getKeyValue() Return the business key of this entity.
List<Entity>	getList(String name) Return the value of the attribute specified by the given name as list.
Session	getSession() Returns the session that owns this entity
Entity.PersistentState	getState() Return the state of this entity.
<T> T	getValue(Attribute<T> attribute) Return the value of the given attribute or null.
Object	getValue(String name) Return the value of the attribute specified by the given name.
boolean	isReleased() Return true if this entity is released else false.
boolean	isValid() Return true if this entity is valid else false.
void	refresh() Refresh the content of this entity with the one stored in the DB.
void	rollback() Reset all changes applied to this entity.
<T> void	setValue(Attribute<T> attribute, T value) Set the value of the attribute attribute to value.
<T> void	setValue(String name, T value) Set the value of the attribute name to value.

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map

clear, containsKey, containsValue, entrySet, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, values

Method Detail

getValue

@Nullable
Object getValue(String name)
                throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Return the value of the attribute specified by the given name. If no attribute exists with the given name then the returned is null.

Parameters:

name - specifying the attribute to get the value for

Returns:

the value of the the attribute specified by the given name or null.

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.17

getList

@NotNull
List<Entity> getList(String name)
                     throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Return the value of the attribute specified by the given name as list.

Parameters:

name - the name of the list attribut

Returns:

the value of the attribute specified by name as list if possible

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the attribut specified by the given name is no list attribute

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.55

getValue

@Nullable
<T> T getValue(Attribute<T> attribute)
           throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Return the value of the given attribute or null.

Parameters:

attribute - the attribute to get the value for

Returns:

the value of the given attribute or null (e.g. if entity is deleted)

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.17

setValue

<T> void setValue(@NotNull
                  String name,
                  T value)
              throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Set the value of the attribute name to value.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if name denotes not a valid attribute or value is an incorrect type for this attribute

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.17

setValue

<T> void setValue(@NotNull
                  Attribute<T> attribute,
                  T value)
              throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Set the value of the attribute attribute to value.

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.17

getEntityType

EntityType getEntityType()

Return the type of this entity

Since:

4.0.17

getAttributeNames

Collection<String> getAttributeNames()

Return a collection of the attributes declared for this entity.

Since:

4.0.17

isValid

boolean isValid()
                throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Return true if this entity is valid else false. An entity is valid if and only if all values of its attributes are valid and itself is valid according to the assigned validator in the EntityType.

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.17

refresh

void refresh()
             throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Refresh the content of this entity with the one stored in the DB.

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.24

getIdentifier

de.espirit.or.schema.Identifier getIdentifier()

Return the identifier of this entity. In a temporal context an entity can have more than one version. All of the versions have the same KeyValue but each version must have an unique identifier which is used to retrieve the version from the database. In the temporal context the identifier is a composed primary key it contains the key value of the entity and the following system columns: valid from, valid to, release to

Since:

4.0.17

getKeyValue

@Nullable
KeyValue getKeyValue()

Return the business key of this entity.

Since:

4.0.17

getState

Entity.PersistentState getState()

Return the state of this entity. @see PersistentState.

Since:

4.0.17

isReleased

boolean isReleased()

Return true if this entity is released else false. An entity is released if its release to value is equals Long.MAX_VALUE.

Since:

4.0.17

rollback

void rollback()

Reset all changes applied to this entity.

Since:

4.0.17

getSession

@NotNull
Session getSession()

Returns the session that owns this entity

Since:

4.0.17

copy

Entity copy()
            throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Copies this entity.

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.55

copyFrom

void copyFrom(@NotNull
              Entity entity)
              throws de.espirit.or.ORException

Copy the values of the given entity to this entity. A deep copy is done if the attribute of the value is simple or it is aggregated by value else a shallow copy.

Throws:

de.espirit.or.ORException

Since:

4.0.17