Hibernate example source code file (ResultTransformer.java)

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The Hibernate ResultTransformer.java source code

/*
 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.transform;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Implementors define a strategy for transforming query results into the
 * actual application-visible query result list.
 *
 * @see org.hibernate.Criteria#setResultTransformer(ResultTransformer)
 * @see org.hibernate.Query#setResultTransformer(ResultTransformer)
 *
 * @author Gavin King
 */
public interface ResultTransformer extends Serializable {
	/**
	 * Tuples are the elements making up each "row" of the query result.
	 * The contract here is to transform these elements into the final
	 * row.
	 *
	 * @param tuple The result elements
	 * @param aliases The result aliases ("parallel" array to tuple)
	 * @return The transformed row.
	 */
	public Object transformTuple(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases);

	/**
	 * Here we have an opportunity to perform transformation on the
	 * query result as a whole.  This might be useful to convert from
	 * one collection type to another or to remove duplicates from the
	 * result, etc.
	 *
	 * @param collection The result.
	 * @return The transformed result.
	 */
	public List transformList(List collection);
}