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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
 *
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package org.hibernate.query.criteria.internal;

import java.io.Serializable;

import org.hibernate.query.criteria.internal.CriteriaBuilderImpl;

All nodes in a criteria query tree will generally need access to the CriteriaBuilderImpl from which they come. This base class provides convenient, consistent support for that. 
Author:
Steve Ebersole/**
 * All nodes in a criteria query tree will generally need access to the {@link CriteriaBuilderImpl} from which they
 * come.  This base class provides convenient, consistent support for that.
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public abstract class AbstractNode implements Serializable {
	private final CriteriaBuilderImpl criteriaBuilder;

	public AbstractNode(CriteriaBuilderImpl criteriaBuilder) {
		this.criteriaBuilder = criteriaBuilder;
	}

	
Provides access to the underlying CriteriaBuilderImpl. 
Returns:
The underlying CriteriaBuilderImpl instance./**
	 * Provides access to the underlying {@link CriteriaBuilderImpl}.
	 *
	 * @return The underlying {@link CriteriaBuilderImpl} instance.
	 */
	public CriteriaBuilderImpl criteriaBuilder() {
		return criteriaBuilder;
	}
}