Hibernate Types
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This section gives you description of all the Types that are supported by Hibernate. A Hibernate Type is used to map a Java property type to a JDBC type or types.
The following tables to represents all Hibernate types:
| Interfaces and Descriptions: | |
| AbstractComponentType | The AbstractComponentType enables other Component-like types to hold collections and have cascades, etc. |
| AssociationType | This interface used to represent all associations between entities. |
| DiscriminatorType | This interface used to discriminator properties with the help of right mapped subclass. |
| IdentifierType | This interface has All identifiers of entities. |
| LiteralType | This is a maker interface that which store SQL literals. |
| Type | This interface describes mapping between the Java and JDBC datatypes |
| VersionType | This interface used for version stamping. |
| Classes and Descriptions: | |
| AbstractBynaryType | The stream of byte bounded into a VAQRBINARY. |
| AbstractCharArrayType | The stream of char bounded into a VARCHAR. |
| AbstractType | This is a superclass that can be used for creating type hierarchy. |
| AdaptedImmutableType | |
| AnyType | It defines 'any' mappings and deprecated 'object' types. |
| AnyType.ObjectTypeCacheEntry | |
| ArrayType | It represents collection of data into a similar types. |
| BagType | |
| BigDecimaType | This class used to mapping between SQL NUMERIC and java.math.BigDecimal. |
| BigIntegerType | This class used to mapping between SQL NUMERIC and java.math.BigInteger. |
| BinaryType | It used to mapping between a SQL VARBINARY and a Java byte[]. |
| BlobType | It used to mapping between a SQL BLOB and java.sql.Blob. |
| BooleanType | This class maps between SQL BIT and Java Boolean. |
| ByteType | This class maps between SQL TINYINT and Java Byte. |
| CalendarDateType | This class represents a data and mapping into a Calendar object. |
| CalendarType | It also represents a datetime mapping into a Calendar object. |
| CharacterArrayType | It is a collection of VARCHAR like: Character[]. |
| CharacterType | This class mapping between a SQL CHAR and a Java Character. |
| CharArrayType | It is a collection of VARCHAR like: char[]. |
| CharBooleanType | This is a superclass that can be mapping between SQL CHAR and Java boolean. |
| ClassType | This class mapping between SQL VARCHAR and Java class. |
| ClobType | This class mapping between SQL CLOB and java.sql.Clob. |
| CollectionType | It handles the Hibernate PersistentCollections. |
| ComponentType | This class mapping all components. |
| CompositeCustomType | It adjusts CompositeUserType to Type interface.; |
| CurrencyType | It is used to mapping a SQL VARCHAR into a java.util.Currency. |
| CustomCollectionType | This class is created by users and implement the PersistentCollection. |
| CustomType | It adjusts the user type to generic type interface and changes the internal type contracts. |
| DateType | This class mapping between an SQL DATE to Java Date. |
| DbTimestampType | |
| DoubleType | It can be used to mapping between SQL DOUBLE to Java Double. |
| EmbeddedComponentType | |
| EntityType | It communicates an entity class. |
| FloatType | It links SQL FLOAT to Java Float. |
| ForeignKeyDirection | This class shows directionality of the foreign key constraint. |
| IdentifierBagType | |
| ImmutableType | This is a superclass of the nullable immutable type. |
| IntegerType | This class links between the SQL INT to Java Integer. |
| ListType | |
| LocaleType | It links into an SQL VARCHAR and a Java Locale. |
| LongType | This class links into an SQL BIGINT and a Java Long. |
| ManyToOneType | It associates many-to-one entity. |
| MapType | |
| MetaType | |
| MutableType | This is a superclass of mutable nullable types. |
| NullableType | This is a supperclass of single-column nullable types. |
| OneToOneType | It associates one-to-one entity. |
| OrderedMapType | |
| OrderedSetType | |
| PrimitiveType | This is the superclass of primitive or primitive wrappers types. |
| SerializableType | This class maps an SQL VARBINARY to a serializable Java object. |
| SetType | |
| ShortType | It communicates between an SQL SMALLINT and Java Short. |
| SortedMapType | |
| SortedSetType | |
| SpacialOneToOneType | |
| StringType | It communicates between an SQL VARCHAR and Java String. |
| TextType | This class links between an SQL CLOB and Java String. |
| TimestampType | This class mapping between an SQL TIMESTAMP and Java java.util.Date or java.sql.Timestamp. |
| TimeType | It maps an SQL TIME to Java java.util.Date or java.sql.Time. |
| TimeZoneType | It communicates an SQL VARCHAR to Java java.util.TimeZone. |
| TrueFalseType | This class maps an SQL CHAR to a Java Boolean. |
| TypeFactory | This class used internally and holds an instance of Type. |
| WrapperBinaryType | |
| YesNoType | It maps between an SQL CHAR to Java Boolean. |
| Exceptions and Descriptions: | |
| SerializationException | This exception occurs when the property could not be serialized or deserialized. |