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package org.hibernate.type;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.Mapping;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionFactoryImplementor;

Additional, optional contract for types whose values can be represented as XML text (either as attribute or
element value).
Author:
Steve Ebersole
See Also:
StringRepresentableType
Deprecated:
To be removed in 5. Use StringRepresentableType instead. See Jira issues HHH-7777 and
HHH-7776 for details./**
 * Additional, optional contract for types whose values can be represented as XML text (either as attribute or
 * element value).
 *
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 *
 * @deprecated To be removed in 5.  Use {@link StringRepresentableType} instead.  See Jira issues
 * <a href="https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7777">HHH-7777</a> and
 * <a href="https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7776">HHH-7776</a> for details.
 *
 * @see StringRepresentableType
 */
@Deprecated
public interface XmlRepresentableType<T> {
	public String toXMLString(T value, SessionFactoryImplementor factory) throws HibernateException;

	public T fromXMLString(String xml, Mapping factory) throws HibernateException;
}