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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.boot.model.source.spi;

Additional contract describing the source of an identifier mapping whose nature is simple. 
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Additional contract describing the source of an identifier mapping whose {@link #getNature() nature} is
 * {@link org.hibernate.id.EntityIdentifierNature#SIMPLE simple}.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface IdentifierSourceSimple extends IdentifierSource {
	
Obtain the source descriptor for the identifier attribute.
Returns:
The identifier attribute source./**
	 * Obtain the source descriptor for the identifier attribute.
	 *
	 * @return The identifier attribute source.
	 */
	public SingularAttributeSource getIdentifierAttributeSource();

	
 Returns the "unsaved" entity identifier value.
 @return the "unsaved" entity identifier value
/**
	 *  Returns the "unsaved" entity identifier value.
	 *
	 *  @return the "unsaved" entity identifier value
	 */
	public String getUnsavedValue();

}