Hibernate example source code file (InheritanceType.java)

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inheritancetype, inheritancetype, joined, joined, mappingexception, no_inheritance, single_table, single_table, table_per_class, table_per_class, unknown

The Hibernate InheritanceType.java source code

/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.metamodel.binding;

import org.hibernate.MappingException;

/**
 * The inheritance type for a given entity.
 * <p>
 * Note, we are not using the JPA enum, because we need the ability to extend the types if we need to.
 *
 * @author Hardy Ferentschik
 */
public enum InheritanceType {
	JOINED,
	SINGLE_TABLE,
	TABLE_PER_CLASS,
	NO_INHERITANCE;

	/**
	 * @param jpaType The JPA inheritance type
	 *
	 * @return The inheritance type of this class.
	 */
	public static InheritanceType get(javax.persistence.InheritanceType jpaType) {
		switch ( jpaType ) {
			case SINGLE_TABLE: {
				return InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE;
			}
			case JOINED: {
				return InheritanceType.JOINED;
			}
			case TABLE_PER_CLASS: {
				return InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS;
			}
			default: {
				throw new MappingException( "Unknown jpa inheritance type:" + jpaType.name() );
			}
		}
	}
}