org.apache.cayenne.map (cayenne-doc: Cayenne Documentation 5.0-M2 API)
Description: declaration: package: org.apache.cayenne.map

# Package org.apache.cayenne.map

package org.apache.cayenne.map
Contains O/R mapping classes that store relational database metadata information and map it to Java classes.

- Related Packages
  Package
  Description
  org.apache.cayenne
  Contains persistence APIs directly accessible by users.
- Class
  Description
  Attribute<E extends Entity<E,A,R>, A extends Attribute<E,A,R>, R extends Relationship<E,A,R>>
  Defines a property descriptor that is a part of an Entity.
  CallbackDescriptor
  A mapping descriptor of a single callback event.
  CallbackMap
  A generic descriptor of a set of standard lifecycle callbacks.
  DataMap
  Stores a collection of related mapping objects that describe database and object layers of an application.
  DbAttribute
  A DbAttribute defines a descriptor for a single database table column.
  DbEntity
  A DbEntity is a mapping descriptor that defines a structure of a database table.
  DbJoin
  Defines a join between two attributes of a given relationship.
  DbKeyGenerator
  DbKeyGenerator is an abstraction of a primary key generator It configures the primary key generation per DbEntity in a RDBMS independent manner.
  DbRelationship
  A DbRelationship is a descriptor of a database inter-table relationship based on one or more primary key/foreign key pairs.
  DefaultEntityResultSegment
  DefaultScalarResultSegment
  DeleteRule
  Defines constants for the possible values of ObjRelationship delete rules.
  EJBQLQueryDescriptor
  Embeddable
  A mapping descriptor of an embeddable class.
  EmbeddableAttribute
  A persistent attribute of an embeddable object.
  EmbeddedAttribute
  An attribute of the ObjEntity that maps to an embeddable class.
  EmbeddedResult
  A metadata object that provides mapping of a set of result columns to an Embeddable object.
  Entity<E extends Entity<E,A,R>, A extends Attribute<E,A,R>, R extends Relationship<E,A,R>>
  An Entity is an abstract descriptor for an entity mapping concept.
  EntityInheritanceTree
  A tree structure representing inheritance hierarchy of an ObjEntity and its subentities.
  EntityResolver
  Represents a virtual shared namespace for zero or more DataMaps.
  EntityResult
  A metadata object that provides mapping of a set of result columns to an ObjEntity.
  EntitySorter
  Defines API for sorting of Cayenne entities based on their mutual dependencies.
  JoinType
  Enumerates supported JOIN types.
  LifecycleEvent
  Defines possible entity object lifecycle events.
  MappingNamespace
  Defines API of a container of DbEntities, ObjEntities, Procedures, Queries and other mapping objects.
  ObjAttribute
  An ObjAttribute is a mapping descriptor of a Java class property.
  ObjEntity
  ObjEntity is a mapping descriptor for a Persistent Java class.
  ObjRelationship
  Describes an association between two Java classes mapped as source and target ObjEntity.
  PathComponent<A extends Attribute, R extends Relationship>
  A component in a path chain.
  Procedure
  A mapping descriptor for a database stored procedure.
  ProcedureParameter
  A descriptor for the Procedure parameter.
  ProcedureQueryDescriptor
  QueryDescriptor
  Generic descriptor of a Cayenne query.
  QueryDescriptorLoader
  A builder that constructs Cayenne queries from abstract configuration information defined in cayenne-data-map*.dtd.
  Relationship<E extends Entity<E,A,R>, A extends Attribute<E,A,R>, R extends Relationship<E,A,R>>
  Defines a relationship between two entities.
  SelectQueryDescriptor
  SQLResult
  A metadata object that defines how a row in a result set can be converted to result objects.
  SQLTemplateDescriptor