DomainType (hibernate-core JavaDocs)

Type Parameters:

J - The Java type for this JPA Type

All Superinterfaces:

Type<J>

All Known Subinterfaces:

BasicDomainType<J>, BasicTypeDescriptor<J>, CollectionDomainType<C,E>, DomainTypeDescriptor<J>, EmbeddedDomainType<J>, EmbeddedTypeDescriptor<J>, EntityDomainType<J>, EntityTypeDescriptor<J>, IdentifiableDomainType<J>, IdentifiableTypeDescriptor<J>, ManagedDomainType<J>, ManagedTypeDescriptor<J>, MappedSuperclassDomainType<J>, MappedSuperclassTypeDescriptor<J>, SimpleDomainType<J>, SimpleTypeDescriptor<J>
```
public interface DomainType<J>
extends Type<J>
```
Base contract for Hibernate's extension of the JPA type system.

ApiNote:

The "real" JPA type system is more akin to SimpleDomainType. We begin our JPA type system extension a "level above" that. This is to allow for: 1) JPA does not define a Type for collections. It's understandable why, but leads to limitations in regards to being able to understand the type of an attribute - in JPA, when the attribute is plural the only descriptor info available is for the the collection is its Java type (Class). 2) specialized types like ANY, The `*DomainType` naming pattern is used to more easily (visually) differentiate these extensions from the JPA ones in application use.

Nested Class Summary
- Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface javax.persistence.metamodel.Type
  Type.PersistenceType

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`getTypeName()`	The name of the type - this is Hibernate notion of the type name including non-pojo mappings, etc.

Methods inherited from interface javax.persistence.metamodel.Type
getJavaType, getPersistenceType

- Method Detail
  - getTypeName
```
java.lang.String getTypeName()
```
    The name of the type - this is Hibernate notion of the type name including non-pojo mappings, etc.