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/* | |
* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java | |
* | |
* Copyright (c) 2011, Red Hat Inc. or third-party contributors as | |
* indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution | |
* statements applied by the authors. All third-party contributions are | |
* distributed under license by Red Hat Inc. | |
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* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify, | |
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* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation. | |
* | |
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
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* Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
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*/ | |
package org.hibernate.metamodel.source.spi; | |
/** | |
* This class provides a placeholder for Class objects that may not been loaded yet. | |
* @author Gail Badner | |
*/ | |
public interface ClassHolder { | |
/** | |
* Get the name of the class held (or to be held) by this object. | |
* @return the name of the class held by this object | |
*/ | |
String getClassName(); | |
/** | |
* Indicates if this object holds a loaded {@code Class}. | |
* | |
* @return true, if this object holds a loaded {@code Class}; | |
* false, otherwise. | |
*/ | |
boolean hasLoadedClass(); | |
/** | |
* Returns the loaded class held by this object. If the class | |
* has not been loaded yet, this method forces the class to be | |
* loaded. | |
* | |
* @return the loaded class held by this object | |
*/ | |
Class getLoadedClass(); | |
} |
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