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/* * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java * * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later. * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>. */ package org.hibernate.event.spi; import java.io.Serializable; import org.hibernate.persister.entity.EntityPersister; /** * Represents a <tt>pre-update</tt> event, which occurs just prior to * performing the update of an entity in the database. * * @author Gavin King * @author Steve Ebersole */ public class PreUpdateEvent extends AbstractPreDatabaseOperationEvent { private Object[] state; private Object[] oldState; /** * Constructs an event containing the pertinent information. * * @param entity The entity to be updated. * @param id The id of the entity to use for updating. * @param state The state to be updated. * @param oldState The state of the entity at the time it was loaded from * the database. * @param persister The entity's persister. * @param source The session from which the event originated. */ public PreUpdateEvent(Object entity, Serializable id, Object[] state, Object[] oldState, EntityPersister persister, EventSource source) { super(source, entity, id, persister); this.state = state; this.oldState = oldState; } /** * Retrieves the state to be used in the update. * * @return The current state. */ public Object[] getState() { return state; } /** * The old state of the entity at the time it was last loaded from the * database; can be null in the case of detached entities. * * @return The loaded state, or null. */ public Object[] getOldState() { return oldState; } }