oracle.jbo.domain
Interface DomainInterface

All Known Subinterfaces:

BlobDomainInterface, LobInterface, LobStreamInterface, MutableDomainInterface

All Known Implementing Classes:

DateDomain, NullValue, SequenceImpl, SQLValue, SQLValueImpl

public interface DomainInterface

Implemented by domain classes to save data to, and extract data from, a domain class.

Domain classes extend or encapsulate Oracle SQL datatypes. Domain objects can be converted to the standard JDBC data types.

Since:

JDevloper 3.0

See Also:

TypeFactory, JboDomainValidator

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getData() Internal: Applications should not use this method.
void	setContext(DomainOwnerInterface owner, Transaction trans, java.lang.Object ctx) Internal: Applications should not use this method.

Method Detail

getData

public java.lang.Object getData()

Internal: Applications should not use this method.

Returns the value in the format that is acceptable to the database.

For domain classes based on oracle.sql.* classes, this method returns a Datum object. For domains based on java.lang types such as String, the value-holder object that is passed to JDBC is returned.

Returns:

a formatted value object.

setContext

public void setContext(DomainOwnerInterface owner,
Transaction trans,
                       java.lang.Object ctx)

Internal: Applications should not use this method.