com.breeze.metadata

Class Metadata

java.lang.Object

com.breeze.metadata.Metadata

Direct Known Subclasses:

HibernateMetadata

public abstract class Metadata
extends java.lang.Object

Strongly typed metadata the describes all of the entityTypes for a single model and all of their associated data and navigation properties.

Author:

IdeaBlade

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	Metadata.DataProperty
class	Metadata.EntityType The metadata that describes a single java entity class.
class	Metadata.NavigationProperty

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Metadata()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	build()
protected abstract RawMetadata	buildRawMetadata()
IEntityType	getEntityType(java.lang.String entityTypeName)
IEntityType	getEntityTypeForClass(java.lang.Class<?> clazz)
IEntityType	getEntityTypeForResourceName(java.lang.String resourceName)
RawMetadata	getRawMetadata()
java.lang.String	toJson()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Metadata

public Metadata()

Method Detail

build

public void build()

buildRawMetadata

protected abstract RawMetadata buildRawMetadata()

getRawMetadata

public RawMetadata getRawMetadata()

toJson

public java.lang.String toJson()

getEntityTypeForResourceName

public IEntityType getEntityTypeForResourceName(java.lang.String resourceName)

Parameters:

resourceName - The name of the url resource.

Returns:

The EntityType associated with the specified resource name.

getEntityTypeForClass

public IEntityType getEntityTypeForClass(java.lang.Class<?> clazz)

Parameters:

clazz - An entity class.

Returns:

The EntityType associated with the specified class.

getEntityType

public IEntityType getEntityType(java.lang.String entityTypeName)

Parameters:

entityTypeName - An EntityType name.

Returns:

The EntityType associated with the specified name.