com.force.sdk.jpa
Class BaseEntity

java.lang.Object
  com.force.sdk.jpa.BaseEntity

public final class BaseEntity
extends Object

Utility for allowing merges on transient objects, i.e. objects that have not necessarily been persisted or retrieved via the EntityManager

Author:

Fiaz Hossain

Method Summary

static <T> T

initialiseForTransientMerge(javax.persistence.EntityManager em, T obj) Initialise an object of type T to be available for a merge() call even if it has not been persisted or retrieved, by injecting a custom state manager into the object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

initialiseForTransientMerge

public static <T> T initialiseForTransientMerge(javax.persistence.EntityManager em,
                                                T obj)

Initialise an object of type T to be available for a merge() call even if it has not been persisted or retrieved, by injecting a custom state manager into the object.

Type Parameters:

T - the type of a PersistenceCapable entity

Parameters:

em - the entity manager used for persisting

obj - the object being persisted

Returns:

the object that is now ready for a transient merge