Top Description Methods
org.hibernate.annotations

public @Interface ManyToAny

extends Annotation
Annotations
@Target:METHOD, FIELD
@Retention:RUNTIME
Static Imports
java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD, .ElementType.FIELD, .RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME, javax.persistence.FetchType.EAGER
Defined a ToMany association pointing to different entity types. Matching the according entity type is doe through a metadata discriminator column This kind of mapping should be only marginal.
Author
Emmanuel Bernard

Method Summary

Modifier and TypeMethod and Description
public FetchType
fetch()

Defines whether the value of the field or property should be lazily loaded or must be eagerly fetched.

public Column
metaColumn()

Metadata dicriminator column description, This column will hold the meta value corresponding to the targeted entity.

public String
metaDef()

Metadata definition used.

Inherited from java.lang.annotation.Annotation:
annotationTypeequalshashCodetoString

Method Detail

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public FetchType fetch()

Defines whether the value of the field or property should be lazily loaded or must be eagerly fetched. The EAGER strategy is a requirement on the persistence provider runtime that the value must be eagerly fetched. The LAZY strategy is applied when bytecode enhancement is used. If not specified, defaults to EAGER.

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public Column metaColumn()

Metadata dicriminator column description, This column will hold the meta value corresponding to the targeted entity.

metaDefback to summary
public String metaDef()

Metadata definition used. If defined, should point to a @AnyMetaDef name If not defined, the local (ie in the same field or property) @AnyMetaDef is used