com.sleepycat.persist.evolve
Class Converter

java.lang.Object
  com.sleepycat.persist.evolve.Mutation
      com.sleepycat.persist.evolve.Converter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

EntityConverter

public class Converter
extends Mutation

A mutation for converting an old version of an object value to conform to the current class or field definition. For example:

  package my.package;

  // The old class.  Version 0 is implied.
  //
  @Entity
  class Person {
      // ...
  }

  // The new class.  A new version number must be assigned.
  //
  @Entity(version=1)
  class Person {
      // Incompatible changes were made here...
  }

  // Add a converter mutation.
  //
  Mutations mutations = new Mutations();

  mutations.addConverter(new Converter(Person.class.getName(), 0,
                                       new MyConversion()));

  // Configure the mutations as described here.

See Conversion for more information.

See Also:

Class Evolution, Serialized Form

Converter

public Converter(String className,
                 int classVersion,
                 Conversion conversion)

Creates a mutation for converting all instances of the given class version to the current version of the class.

Converter

public Converter(String declaringClassName,
                 int declaringClassVersion,
                 String fieldName,
                 Conversion conversion)

Creates a mutation for converting all values of the given field in the given class version to a type compatible with the current declared type of the field.

getConversion

public Conversion getConversion()

Returns the converter instance specified to the constructor.

equals

public boolean equals(Object other)

Returns true if the conversion objects are equal in this object and given object, and if the Mutation.equals(java.lang.Object) superclass method returns true.

Overrides:

equals in class Mutation

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Mutation

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Mutation