com.atlassian.jira.entity
Interface EntityFactory<E>

All Superinterfaces:

EntityBuilder<E>, NamedEntityBuilder<E>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEntityFactory, ApplicationUserEntityFactory, ClusterLockStatusEntity, EntityPropertyFactory, EntityPropertyIndexDocumentFactory, FilterSubscriptionFactory, GlobalPermissionEntityFactory, IssueLinkFactory, IssueSecurityLevelFactory, IssueSecurityLevelPermissionFactory, LicenseRoleGroupEntityFactory, MovedIssueKeyFactory, ProjectCategoryFactory, RemoteIssueLinkFactory, ReplicatedIndexOperationFactory, RunDetailsFactory, WorklogEntityFactory

public interface EntityFactory<E>
extends NamedEntityBuilder<E>

An entity factory is able to convert a Generic Value for an entity into a domain object and back. It is used by EntityEngine to run queries that return Domain objects instead of GenericValues.

Since:

v4.4

Method Summary

List<E>	buildList(Collection<org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericValue> gvList) Builds a list of instances from a list of GenericValues.
Map<String,Object>	fieldMapFrom(E value) Builds a FieldMap from an entity Object.

Methods inherited from interface com.atlassian.jira.entity.NamedEntityBuilder

getEntityName

Methods inherited from interface com.atlassian.jira.entity.EntityBuilder

build

Method Detail

buildList

List<E> buildList(Collection<org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericValue> gvList)

Builds a list of instances from a list of GenericValues. This method is included in the interface so that the no-op implementation can take a performance shortcut and simply return the given list. If a null list is input, then a null list will be output.

Parameters:

gvList - List of GenericValues

Returns:

List of objects.

fieldMapFrom

Map<String,Object> fieldMapFrom(E value)

Builds a FieldMap from an entity Object. The FieldMap is the data held by a GenericValue, so this basically is the reverse operation of turning an object into a GenericValue.

Parameters:

value - the Entity value

Returns:

Map of field values