org.castor.ddlgen
Interface SchemaFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

Db2SchemaFactory, DerbySchemaFactory, HsqlSchemaFactory, MssqlSchemaFactory, MysqlSchemaFactory, OracleSchemaFactory, PointBaseSchemaFactory, PostgresqlSchemaFactory, SapdbSchemaFactory, SybaseSchemaFactory

public interface SchemaFactory

The SchemaFactory handles the creation for various schema objects. It helps the AbstractGenerator to dynamically extract schema information for specific database. This interface need to be implemented for every supported database engine.

Since:

1.1

Version:

$Revision: 5951 $ $Date: 2006-04-25 16:09:10 -0600 (Tue, 25 Apr 2006) $

Author:

Le Duc Bao, Ralf Joachim

Method Summary

Field	createField() Create field objects.
ForeignKey	createForeignKey() Create foreign key objects.
Index	createIndex() Create index objects.
PrimaryKey	createPrimaryKey() Create primary key objects.
Schema	createSchema() Create schema objects.
Table	createTable() Create table objects.

Method Detail

createSchema

public Schema createSchema()

Create schema objects.

Returns:

New schema object.

createTable

public Table createTable()

Create table objects.

Returns:

New table object.

createField

public Field createField()

Create field objects.

Returns:

New field object.

createForeignKey

public ForeignKey createForeignKey()

Create foreign key objects.

Returns:

New foreign key object.

createIndex

public Index createIndex()

Create index objects.

Returns:

New index object.

createPrimaryKey

public PrimaryKey createPrimaryKey()

Create primary key objects.

Returns:

New primary key object.