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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.annotations;


Possible actions when an associated entity is not found in the database. Often seen with "legacy" foreign-key schemes which do not use NULL to indicate a missing reference, instead using a "magic value". 
Author:
Emmanuel Bernard/**
 * Possible actions when an associated entity is not found in the database.  Often seen with "legacy" foreign-key
 * schemes which do not use {@code NULL} to indicate a missing reference, instead using a "magic value".
 *
 * @author Emmanuel Bernard
 */
public enum NotFoundAction {
	
Raise an exception when an element is not found (default and recommended).
/**
	 * Raise an exception when an element is not found (default and recommended).
	 */
	EXCEPTION,
	
Ignore the element when not found in database.
/**
	 * Ignore the element when not found in database.
	 */
	IGNORE
}