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90Interface MarshalledTupleKeyEntity</H2>
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93<DT><PRE>public interface <B>MarshalledTupleKeyEntity</B></DL>
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97A marshalling interface implemented by entity classes that represent keys as
98 tuples. Since <code>MarshalledTupleKeyEntity</code> objects are instantiated
99 using Java deserialization, no particular constructor is required by classes
100 that implement this interface.
101
102 <p>Note that a marshalled tuple key extractor is somewhat less efficient
103 than a non-marshalled key tuple extractor because more conversions are
104 needed.  A marshalled key extractor must convert the entry to an object in
105 order to extract the key fields, while an unmarshalled key extractor does
106 not.</p>
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111<DT><B>See Also:</B><DD><A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/TupleTupleMarshalledBinding.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.tuple"><CODE>TupleTupleMarshalledBinding</CODE></A>, 
112<A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/serial/TupleSerialMarshalledBinding.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.serial"><CODE>TupleSerialMarshalledBinding</CODE></A></DL>
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127<CODE>&nbsp;void</CODE></FONT></TD>
128<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/MarshalledTupleKeyEntity.html#marshalPrimaryKey(com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleOutput)">marshalPrimaryKey</A></B>(<A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/TupleOutput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.tuple">TupleOutput</A>&nbsp;keyOutput)</CODE>
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131&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Extracts the entity's primary key and writes it to the key output.</TD>
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135<CODE>&nbsp;boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
136<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/MarshalledTupleKeyEntity.html#marshalSecondaryKey(java.lang.String, com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleOutput)">marshalSecondaryKey</A></B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A>&nbsp;keyName,
137                    <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/TupleOutput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.tuple">TupleOutput</A>&nbsp;keyOutput)</CODE>
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140&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Extracts the entity's secondary key and writes it to the key output.</TD>
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144<CODE>&nbsp;boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
145<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/MarshalledTupleKeyEntity.html#nullifyForeignKey(java.lang.String)">nullifyForeignKey</A></B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A>&nbsp;keyName)</CODE>
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148&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Clears the entity's secondary key fields for the given key name.</TD>
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153<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/MarshalledTupleKeyEntity.html#unmarshalPrimaryKey(com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleInput)">unmarshalPrimaryKey</A></B>(<A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/TupleInput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.tuple">TupleInput</A>&nbsp;keyInput)</CODE>
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156&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Completes construction of the entity by setting its primary key from the
157 stored primary key.</TD>
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174marshalPrimaryKey</H3>
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176void <B>marshalPrimaryKey</B>(<A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/TupleOutput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.tuple">TupleOutput</A>&nbsp;keyOutput)</PRE>
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178<DD>Extracts the entity's primary key and writes it to the key output.
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181<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>keyOutput</CODE> - is the output tuple.</DL>
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191<DD>Completes construction of the entity by setting its primary key from the
192 stored primary key.
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195<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>keyInput</CODE> - is the input tuple.</DL>
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203boolean <B>marshalSecondaryKey</B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A>&nbsp;keyName,
204                            <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/TupleOutput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bind.tuple">TupleOutput</A>&nbsp;keyOutput)</PRE>
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206<DD>Extracts the entity's secondary key and writes it to the key output.
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209<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>keyName</CODE> - identifies the secondary key.<DD><CODE>keyOutput</CODE> - is the output tuple.
210<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true if a key was created, or false to indicate that the key is
211 not present.</DL>
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219boolean <B>nullifyForeignKey</B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">String</A>&nbsp;keyName)</PRE>
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221<DD>Clears the entity's secondary key fields for the given key name.
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223 <p>The specified index key should be changed by this method such that
224 <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/bind/tuple/MarshalledTupleKeyEntity.html#marshalSecondaryKey(java.lang.String, com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleOutput)"><CODE>marshalSecondaryKey(java.lang.String, com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleOutput)</CODE></A> for the same key name will return false.
225 Other fields in the data object should remain unchanged.</p>
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227 <p>If <A HREF="/com/sleepycat/db/ForeignKeyDeleteAction.html#NULLIFY"><CODE>ForeignKeyDeleteAction.NULLIFY</CODE></A> was
228 specified when opening the secondary database, this method is called
229 when the entity for this foreign key is deleted.  If NULLIFY was not
230 specified, this method will not be called and may always return
231 false.</p>
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234<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>keyName</CODE> - identifies the secondary key.
235<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true if the key was cleared, or false to indicate that the key
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