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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.cache.spi.entry;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.hibernate.persister.entity.EntityPersister;

Specialized CacheEntry for storing direct references to entity instances.
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * Specialized CacheEntry for storing direct references to entity instances.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public class ReferenceCacheEntryImpl implements CacheEntry {
	private final Object reference;
	// passing the persister avoids a costly persister lookup by class name at cache retrieval time
	private final EntityPersister subclassPersister;

	
Constructs a ReferenceCacheEntryImpl
Params:
reference – The reference entity instance
subclassPersister – The specific subclass persister/**
	 * Constructs a ReferenceCacheEntryImpl
	 *
	 * @param reference The reference entity instance
	 * @param subclassPersister The specific subclass persister
	 */
	public ReferenceCacheEntryImpl(Object reference, EntityPersister subclassPersister) {
		this.reference = reference;
		this.subclassPersister = subclassPersister;
	}

	
Provides access to the stored reference.
Returns:
The stored reference/**
	 * Provides access to the stored reference.
	 *
	 * @return The stored reference
	 */
	public Object getReference() {
		return reference;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isReferenceEntry() {
		return true;
	}

	@Override
	public String getSubclass() {
		return subclassPersister.getEntityName();
	}

	public EntityPersister getSubclassPersister() {
		return subclassPersister;
	}

	@Override
	public Object getVersion() {
		// reference data cannot be versioned
		return null;
	}

	@Override
	public Serializable[] getDisassembledState() {
		// reference data is not disassembled into the cache
		return null;
	}
}