Package de.xima.fc.interfaces.workflow.reference

Interface IEntityReference

All Superinterfaces:

IObjectReference, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

UuidEntityRef

@Deprecated
public interface IEntityReference
extends IObjectReference

Deprecated.

Prefer the more generic IObjectReference interface instead.

Interface for identifying an entity by its UUID and entity Class

Since:

7.0.0

Author:

XIMA MEDIA GmbH

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Class<? extends IUUIDEntity>	getEntityClass()	Deprecated. Gets the class of the referenced type of entities.
default String	getId()	Deprecated. Gets the ID of the identified object.
default String	getType()	Deprecated. Gets the type of the identified objects.
UUID	getUuid()	Deprecated. Gets the UUID of the referenced entity, i.e. the value of IUUIDEntity.getUUIDObject().

Methods inherited from interface de.xima.fc.interfaces.workflow.reference.IObjectReference

getId, getTypeKnown

Method Detail

getEntityClass

Class<? extends IUUIDEntity> getEntityClass()

Deprecated.

Gets the class of the referenced type of entities.

Returns:

The referenced entity class.

getUuid

UUID getUuid()

Deprecated.

Gets the UUID of the referenced entity, i.e. the value of IUUIDEntity.getUUIDObject().

Returns:

The referenced UUID.

getId

default String getId()

Deprecated.

Gets the ID of the identified object.

For entity references, the ID is always the UUID in its string representation.

Specified by:

getId in interface IObjectReference

Returns:

The object ID.

getType

default String getType()

Deprecated.

Description copied from interface: IObjectReference

Gets the type of the identified objects. This should be the type name of an EntityType, if available, but may be another string in case no such entity type exists. Prefer IObjectReference.getTypeKnown() if applicable.

Specified by:

getType in interface IObjectReference

Returns:

The object type.