Module spring.data.commons

Package org.springframework.data.convert

Class MappingContextTypeInformationMapper

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.data.convert.MappingContextTypeInformationMapper

All Implemented Interfaces:

TypeInformationMapper

public class MappingContextTypeInformationMapper
extends Object
implements TypeInformationMapper

TypeInformationMapper implementation that can be either set up using a MappingContext or manually set up Map of String aliases to types. If a MappingContext is used the Map will be build inspecting the PersistentEntity instances for type alias information.

Author:

Oliver Gierke, Christoph Strobl, Johannes Englmeier

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
MappingContextTypeInformationMapper(MappingContext<? extends PersistentEntity<?,?>,?> mappingContext)	Creates a MappingContextTypeInformationMapper from the given MappingContext.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Alias	createAliasFor(TypeInformation<?> type)	Returns the alias to be used for the given TypeInformation.
TypeInformation<?>	resolveTypeFrom(Alias alias)	Returns the actual TypeInformation to be used for the given alias.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

MappingContextTypeInformationMapper

public MappingContextTypeInformationMapper(MappingContext<? extends PersistentEntity<?,?>,?> mappingContext)

Creates a MappingContextTypeInformationMapper from the given MappingContext. Inspects all PersistentEntity instances for alias information and builds a Map of aliases to types from it.

Parameters:

mappingContext - must not be null.

Method Details

createAliasFor

public Alias createAliasFor(TypeInformation<?> type)

Description copied from interface: TypeInformationMapper

Returns the alias to be used for the given TypeInformation.

Specified by:

createAliasFor in interface TypeInformationMapper

Parameters:

type - must not be null.

Returns:

resolveTypeFrom

@Nullable
public TypeInformation<?> resolveTypeFrom(Alias alias)

Description copied from interface: TypeInformationMapper

Returns the actual TypeInformation to be used for the given alias.

Specified by:

resolveTypeFrom in interface TypeInformationMapper

Parameters:

alias - must not be null.

Returns: