LiteralType (hibernate-core JavaDocs)

All Known Subinterfaces:

DiscriminatorType<T>, PrimitiveType<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

BigIntegerType, BooleanType, ByteType, CharacterNCharType, CharacterType, CurrencyType, CustomType, DateType, DbTimestampType, DoubleType, DurationType, FloatType, InstantType, IntegerType, LocalDateTimeType, LocalDateType, LocaleType, LocalTimeType, LongType, NumericBooleanType, OffsetDateTimeType, OffsetTimeType, ShortType, StringNVarcharType, StringType, TimestampType, TimeType, TimeZoneType, TrueFalseType, UrlType, UUIDCharType, YesNoType, ZonedDateTimeType
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public interface LiteralType<T>
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Additional contract for a Type that may appear as an SQL literal

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`objectToSQLString(T value, Dialect dialect)`	Convert the value into a string representation, suitable for embedding in an SQL statement as a literal.

- Method Detail
  - objectToSQLString
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java.lang.String objectToSQLString(T value,
                                   Dialect dialect)
                            throws java.lang.Exception
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    Convert the value into a string representation, suitable for embedding in an SQL statement as a literal.
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - The value to convert
    
    dialect - The SQL dialect
    
    Returns:
    
    The value's string representation
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception - Indicates an issue converting the value to literal string.