Module jakarta.data

Package jakarta.data.metamodel

Interface BasicAttribute<T,V>

Type Parameters:

T - entity class of the static metamodel.

V - type of entity attribute (or wrapper type if primitive).

All Superinterfaces:

Attribute<T>, Expression<T,V>

All Known Subinterfaces:

BooleanAttribute<T>, ComparableAttribute<T,V>, NumericAttribute<T,N>, TemporalAttribute<T,V>, TextAttribute<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

TextAttributeRecord

public interface BasicAttribute<T,V>
extends Attribute<T>, Expression<T,V>

Represents an entity attribute in the StaticMetamodel that is neither sortable nor capable of order-based comparison. Subclasses of BasicAttribute allow for entity attributes with those abilities.

Since:

1.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static <T, V> BasicAttribute<T,V>	of(Class<T> entityClass, String name, Class<V> attributeType)	Creates a static metamodel BasicAttribute representing the entity attribute with the specified name.
Class<V>	type()	Obtain the Java class of the entity attribute.

Methods inherited from interface jakarta.data.metamodel.Attribute

declaringType, name

Methods inherited from interface jakarta.data.expression.Expression

equalTo, equalTo, in, in, in, isNull, notEqualTo, notEqualTo, notIn, notIn, notIn, notNull, satisfies

Method Details

type

Class<V> type()

Obtain the Java class of the entity attribute.

Specified by:

type in interface Attribute<T>

Specified by:

type in interface Expression<T,V>

Returns:

the type of the entity attribute.

of

static <T,
V> BasicAttribute<T,V> of(Class<T> entityClass,
 String name,
 Class<V> attributeType)

Creates a static metamodel BasicAttribute representing the entity attribute with the specified name.

Type Parameters:

T - entity class of the static metamodel.

V - type of entity attribute (or wrapper type if primitive).

Parameters:

entityClass - the entity class.

name - the name of the entity attribute.

attributeType - type of the entity attribute.

Returns:

instance of BasicAttribute.