javax.persistence
Interface PersistenceUnitUtil

All Superinterfaces:

PersistenceUtil

public interface PersistenceUnitUtil
extends PersistenceUtil

The PersistenceUnitUtil interface provides access to utility methods that can be invoked on entities associated with the persistence unit. The behavior is undefined if these methods are invoked on an entity instance that is not associated with the persistence unit from whose entity manager factory this interface has been obtained.

Since:

JPA 2.0 version.

Author:

Florent Benoit

See Also:

JPA 2.0 specification

Method Summary

Object	getIdentifier(Object entity) Return the id of the entity.
boolean	isLoaded(Object entity) Determine the load state of an entity belonging to the persistence unit.
boolean	isLoaded(Object entity, String attributeName) Determine the load state of a given persistent attribute of an entity belonging to the persistence unit.

Method Detail

isLoaded

boolean isLoaded(Object entity,
                 String attributeName)

Determine the load state of a given persistent attribute of an entity belonging to the persistence unit.

Specified by:

isLoaded in interface PersistenceUtil

Parameters:

entity - entity instance containing the attribute

attributeName - name of attribute whose load state is to be determined

Returns:

false if entity's state has not been loaded or if the attribute state has not been loaded, else true

isLoaded

boolean isLoaded(Object entity)

Determine the load state of an entity belonging to the persistence unit. This method can be used to determine the load state of an entity passed as a reference. An entity is considered loaded if all attributes for which FetchType EAGER has been specified have been loaded. The isLoaded(Object, String) method should be used to determine the load state of an attribute. Not doing so might lead to unintended loading of state.

Specified by:

isLoaded in interface PersistenceUtil

Parameters:

entity - entity whose load state is to be determined

Returns:

false if the entity has not been loaded, else true

getIdentifier

Object getIdentifier(Object entity)

Return the id of the entity. A generated id is not guaranteed to be available until after the database insert has occurred. Returns null if the entity does not yet have an id.

Parameters:

entity - entity instance

Returns:

id of the entity

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the object is found not to be an entity