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100Indicates a persistent entity class.  For each entity class, a <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/PrimaryIndex.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.persist"><CODE>PrimaryIndex</CODE></A> can be used to store and access instances of that class.
101 Optionally, one or more <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/SecondaryIndex.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.persist"><CODE>SecondaryIndex</CODE></A> objects may be used to access
102 entity instances by secondary key.
103
104 <p><strong>Entity Subclasses and Superclasses</strong></p>
105
106 <p>An entity class may have any number of subclasses and superclasses;
107 however, none of these may themselves be entity classes (annotated with
108 <code>Entity</code>).</p>
109
110 <p>Entity superclasses are used to share common definitions and instance
111 data.  For example, fields in an entity superclass may be defined as primary
112 or secondary keys.</p>
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114 <p>Entity subclasses are used to provide polymorphism within a single <code>PrimaryIndex</code>.  Instances of the entity class and its subclasses are stored
115 in the same <code>PrimaryIndex</code>.  Fields in an entity subclass may be
116 defined as secondary keys.</p>
117
118 <p>For example, the following <code>BaseClass</code> defines the primary key for
119 any number of entity classes, using a single sequence to assign primary key
120 values.  The entity class <code>Pet</code> extends the base class, implicitly
121 defining a primary index that will contain instances of it and its
122 subclasses, including <code>Cat</code> which is defined below.  The primary key
123 (<code>id</code>) and secondary key (<code>name</code>) can be used to retrieve any
124 <code>Pet</code> instance.</p>
125 <pre class="code">
126  @Persistent
127  class BaseClass {
128      @PrimaryKey(sequence="ID")
129      long id;
130  }
131
132  @Entity
133  class Pet extends BaseClass {
134      @SecondaryKey(relate=ONE_TO_ONE)
135      String name;
136      float height;
137      float weight;
138  }</pre>
139
140 <p>The entity subclass <code>Cat</code> defines a secondary key (<code>finickyness</code>) that only applies to <code>Cat</code> instances.  Querying by this
141 key will never retrieve a <code>Dog</code> instance, if such a subclass existed,
142 because a <code>Dog</code> instance will never contain a <code>finickyness</code>
143 key.</p>
144 <pre class="code">
145  @Persistent
146  class Cat extends Pet {
147      @SecondaryKey(relate=MANY_TO_ONE)
148      int finickyness;
149  }</pre>
150
151 <p><strong>Persistent Fields and Types</strong></p>
152
153 <p>All non-transient instance fields of an entity class, as well as its
154 superclasses and subclasses, are persistent.  <code>static</code> and <code>transient</code> fields are not persistent.  The persistent fields of a class may
155 be <code>private</code>, package-private (default access), <code>protected</code> or
156 <code>public</code>.</p>
157
158 <p>It is worthwhile to note the reasons that object persistence is defined
159 in terms of fields rather than properties (getters and setters).  This
160 allows business methods (getters and setters) to be defined independently of
161 the persistent state of an object; for example, a setter method may perform
162 validation that could not be performed if it were called during object
163 deserialization.  Similarly, this allows public methods to evolve somewhat
164 independently of the (typically non-public) persistent fields.</p>
165
166 <p><a name="simpleTypes"><strong>Simple Types</strong></a></p>
167
168 <p>Persistent types are divided into simple types, enum types, complex
169 types, and array types.  Simple types and enum types are single valued,
170 while array types may contain multiple elements and complex types may
171 contain one or more named fields.</p>
172
173 <p>Simple types include:</p>
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186 <p>When null values are required (for optional key fields, for example),
187 primitive wrapper classes must be used instead of primitive types.</p>
188
189 <p>Simple types, enum types and array types do not require annotations to
190 make them persistent.</p>
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192 <p><a name="proxyTypes"><strong>Complex and Proxy Types</strong></a></p>
193
194 <p>Complex persistent classes must be annotated with <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Entity.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Entity</CODE></A> or
195 <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Persistent.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Persistent</CODE></A>, or must be proxied by a persistent proxy class
196 (described below).  This includes entity classes, subclasses and
197 superclasses, and all other complex classes referenced via fields of these
198 classes.</p>
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200 <p>All complex persistent classes must have a default constructor.  The
201 default constructor may be <code>private</code>, package-private (default
202 access), <code>protected</code>, or <code>public</code>.  Other constructors are
203 allowed but are not used by the persistence mechanism.</p>
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205 <p>It is sometimes desirable to store instances of a type that is externally
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211 classes, and the <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Persistent.html#proxyFor()"><CODE>Persistent.proxyFor()</CODE></A> property must be specified.</p>
212
213 <p>For convenience, built-in proxy classes are included for several common
214 classes (listed below) in the Java library.  If you wish, you may define
215 your own <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/PersistentProxy.html" title="interface in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>PersistentProxy</CODE></A> to override these built-in proxies.</p>
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224
225 <p>Complex persistent types should in general be application-defined
226 classes.  This gives the application control over the persistent state and
227 its evolution over time.</p>
228
229 <p><strong>Other Type Restrictions</strong></p>
230
231 <p>Entity classes and subclasses may not be used in field declarations for
232 persistent types.  Fields of entity classes and subclasses must be simple
233 types or non-entity persistent types (annotated with <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Persistent.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Persistent</CODE></A> not
234 with <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Entity.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Entity</CODE></A>).</p>
235
236 <p>Entity classes, subclasses and superclasses may be <code>abstract</code> and
237 may implement arbitrary interfaces.  Interfaces do not need to be annotated
238 with <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Persistent.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Persistent</CODE></A> in order to be used in a persistent class, since
239 interfaces do not contain instance fields.</p>
240
241 <p>Persistent instances of static nested classes are allowed, but the nested
242 class must be annotated with <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Persistent.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Persistent</CODE></A> or <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/persist/model/Entity.html" title="annotation in com.sleepycat.persist.model"><CODE>Entity</CODE></A>.  Inner
243 classes (non-static nested classes, including anonymous classes) are not
244 currently allowed as persistent types.</p>
245
246 <p>Arrays of simple and persistent complex types are allowed as fields of
247 persistent types.  Arrays may be multidimensional.  However, an array may
248 not be stored as a top level instance in a primary index.  Only instances of
249 entity classes and subclasses may be top level instances in a primary
250 index.</p>
251
252 <p><strong>Embedded Objects</strong></p>
253
254 <p>As stated above, the embedded (or member) non-transient non-static fields
255 of an entity class are themselves persistent and are stored along with their
256 parent entity object.  This allows embedded objects to be stored in an
257 entity to an arbitrary depth.</p>
258
259 <p>There is no arbitrary limit to the nesting depth of embedded objects
260 within an entity; however, there is a practical limit.  When an entity is
261 marshalled, each level of nesting is implemented internally via recursive
262 method calls.  If the nesting depth is large enough, a <code>StackOverflowError</code> can occur.  In practice, this has been observed with a
263 nesting depth of 12,000, using the default Java stack size.</p>
264
265 <p>This restriction on the nesting depth of embedded objects does not apply
266 to cyclic references, since these are handled specially as described
267 below.</p>
268
269 <p><strong>Object Graphs</strong></p>
270
271 <p>When an entity instance is stored, the graph of objects referenced via
272 its fields is stored and retrieved as a graph.  In other words, if a single
273 instance is referenced by two or more fields when the entity is stored, the
274 same will be true when the entity is retrieved.</p>
275
276 <p>When a reference to a particular object is stored as a member field
277 inside that object or one of its embedded objects, this is called a cyclic
278 reference.  Because multiple references to a single object are stored as
279 such, cycles are also represented correctly and do not cause infinite
280 recursion or infinite processing loops.  If an entity containing a cyclic
281 reference is stored, the cyclic reference will be present when the entity is
282 retrieved.</p>
283
284 <p>Note that the stored object graph is restricted in scope to a single
285 entity instance.  This is because each entity instance is stored separately.
286 If two entities have a reference to the same object when stored, they will
287 refer to two separate instances when the entities are retrieved.</p>
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