Package org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert

Interface MongoTypeMapper

All Superinterfaces:

TypeMapper<org.bson.conversions.Bson>

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultMongoTypeMapper

public interface MongoTypeMapper
extends TypeMapper<org.bson.conversions.Bson>

Mongo-specific TypeMapper exposing that Documents might contain a type key.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Oliver Gierke, Christoph Strobl

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default Class<?>	getWriteTargetTypeFor(Class<?> source)	Compute the target type for a given source considering CustomConversions.
boolean	isTypeKey(String key)	Returns whether the given key is the type key.
void	writeTypeRestrictions(org.bson.Document result, Set<Class<?>> restrictedTypes)	Writes type restrictions to the given Document.

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.data.convert.TypeMapper

readType, readType, writeType, writeType

Method Details

isTypeKey

boolean isTypeKey(String key)

Returns whether the given key is the type key.

Returns:

writeTypeRestrictions

void writeTypeRestrictions(org.bson.Document result,
 Set<Class<?>> restrictedTypes)

Writes type restrictions to the given Document. This usually results in an $in-clause to be generated that restricts the type-key (e.g. _class) to be in the set of type aliases for the given restrictedTypes.

Parameters:

result - must not be null

restrictedTypes - must not be null

getWriteTargetTypeFor

default Class<?> getWriteTargetTypeFor(Class<?> source)

Compute the target type for a given source considering CustomConversions.

Parameters:

source - the source type.

Returns:

never null.

Since:

2.2