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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.type; import java.io.Serializable; import org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect; import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.CharacterTypeDescriptor; import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.CharTypeDescriptor; /** * A type that maps between {@link java.sql.Types#CHAR CHAR(1)} and {@link Character} * * @author Gavin King * @author Steve Ebersole */ public class CharacterType extends AbstractSingleColumnStandardBasicType<Character> implements PrimitiveType<Character>, DiscriminatorType<Character> { public static final CharacterType INSTANCE = new CharacterType(); public CharacterType() { super(CharTypeDescriptor.INSTANCE, CharacterTypeDescriptor.INSTANCE); } public String getName() { return "character"; } @Override public String[] getRegistrationKeys() { return new String[] { getName(), char.class.getName(), Character.class.getName() }; } public Serializable getDefaultValue() { throw new UnsupportedOperationException("not a valid id type"); } public Class getPrimitiveClass() { return char.class; } public String objectToSQLString(Character value, Dialect dialect) { return '\'' + toString(value) + '\''; } public Character stringToObject(String xml) { return fromString(xml); } }