Persistable interface.
- By Frank Sauer
- April 24, 2001
COMPONENT JAVA
Applying Design Patterns to JDBC: Building a Lightweight Object-Relational Mapping Framework
Frank Sauer
Listing 1. Persistable interface.
package com.trcinc.infrastructureservices.jdbc;
import java.util.*;
/**
* Every Persistable must be able to provide a Map
* containing the properties of the object and a List
* of property names that make up the Primary key.
* Poor man's ORM... Used by DefaultSqlOperation,
*
* @author Frank Sauer
* @version 1.0
* @see DefaultSqlOperation
*/
public interface Persistable {
/**
* Get a list of properties representing the persistable
* domain object. The keys are DB column names to
* which the values will be written.
*/
public Map getProperties();
/**
* Set the properties of this persistable domain object
* from the values contained in properties.
*/
public void setProperties(Map properties);
}