org.hibernate.event
Class PreUpdateEvent

java.lang.Object
  org.hibernate.event.AbstractEvent
      org.hibernate.event.AbstractPreDatabaseOperationEvent
          org.hibernate.event.PreUpdateEvent

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class PreUpdateEvent
extends AbstractPreDatabaseOperationEvent

Represents a pre-update event, which occurs just prior to performing the update of an entity in the database.

Author:

Gavin King, Steve Ebersole

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

PreUpdateEvent(java.lang.Object entity, java.io.Serializable id, java.lang.Object[] state, java.lang.Object[] oldState, EntityPersister persister, EventSource source)
Constructs an event containing the pertinent information.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object[]	getOldState() The old state of the entity at the time it was last loaded from the database; can be null in the case of detached entities.
java.lang.Object[]	getState() Retrieves the state to be used in the update.

Methods inherited from class org.hibernate.event.AbstractPreDatabaseOperationEvent

getEntity, getId, getPersister, getSource

Methods inherited from class org.hibernate.event.AbstractEvent

getSession

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PreUpdateEvent

public PreUpdateEvent(java.lang.Object entity,
                      java.io.Serializable id,
                      java.lang.Object[] state,
                      java.lang.Object[] oldState,
                      EntityPersister persister,
                      EventSource source)

Constructs an event containing the pertinent information.

Parameters:

entity - The entity to be updated.

id - The id of the entity to use for updating.

state - The state to be updated.

oldState - The state of the entity at the time it was loaded from the database.

persister - The entity's persister.

source - The session from which the event originated.

Method Detail

getState

public java.lang.Object[] getState()

Retrieves the state to be used in the update.

Returns:

The current state.

getOldState

public java.lang.Object[] getOldState()

The old state of the entity at the time it was last loaded from the database; can be null in the case of detached entities.

Returns:

The loaded state, or null.