net.datenwerke.rs.utils.entitymerge.service

Interface EntityMergeService

All Known Implementing Classes:

EntityMergeServiceImpl

public interface EntityMergeService

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	mergeEntity(java.lang.Object a, java.lang.Object b) This method merges entities (mostly AbstractNode types) using EntityMergeHookers

Method Detail

mergeEntity

void mergeEntity(java.lang.Object a,
                 java.lang.Object b)
          throws java.lang.IllegalAccessException,
                 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

This method merges entities (mostly AbstractNode types) using EntityMergeHookers

Parameters:

a - The object to be merged into

b - The object with the target values

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalAccessException - if the merging of fields failed

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if no hooker applicable to classes of a and b was found