net.sf.oqt.jpa

Class EntityFinder

java.lang.Object

net.sf.oqt.jpa.EntityFinder

public class EntityFinder
extends Object

The EntityFinder class centralizes all the reflection logic for finding all the entities and all the named queries.

Author:

phillip

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EntityFinder()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Set<PackageVO>	findAllEntities(Collection<String> basePackages) This method will find all the entities and named queries based on the list of provided package names.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EntityFinder

public EntityFinder()

Method Detail

findAllEntities

public static Set<PackageVO> findAllEntities(Collection<String> basePackages)
                                      throws ClassNotFoundException

This method will find all the entities and named queries based on the list of provided package names.

This method uses reflection to find all objects annotated with Entity or MappedSuperclass. It will only look in the packages and subpackages which are provided in the basePackages parameter.
This method will also extract all the named queries (both from NamedQuery and NamedQueries).

Parameters:

basePackages - the fully qualified names of the packages where to look for the entities.

Returns:

an filled in set of PackageVO's

Throws:

ClassNotFoundException - this should never occur