How to use

getIdentifierType

method

in

org.hibernate.engine.spi.Mapping

/**
 * Convenience method to locate the identifier type of the associated entity.
 *
 * @param factory The mappings...
 *
 * @return The identifier type
 */
Type getIdentifierType(final Mapping factory) {
  final Type type = associatedIdentifierType;
  //The following branch implements a simple lazy-initialization, but rather than the canonical
  //form it returns the local variable to avoid a second volatile read: associatedIdentifierType
  //needs to be volatile as the initialization might happen by a different thread than the readers.
  if ( type == null ) {
    associatedIdentifierType = factory.getIdentifierType( getAssociatedEntityName() );
    return associatedIdentifierType;
  }
  else {
    return type;
  }
}

/**
 * Convenience method to locate the identifier type of the associated entity.
 *
 * @param factory The mappings...
 * @return The identifier type
 */
Type getIdentifierType(Mapping factory) {
  return factory.getIdentifierType( getAssociatedEntityName() );
}

/**
 * Convenience method to locate the identifier type of the associated entity.
 *
 * @param factory The mappings...
 * @return The identifier type
 */
Type getIdentifierType(Mapping factory) {
  return factory.getIdentifierType( getAssociatedEntityName() );
}