Get the cache (optional operation)

Get the cache structure

Determine whether detahced instances of this entity carry their own identifier value.

Get the user-visible metadata for the class (optional operation)

Retrieve the underlying entity metamodel instance...

The entity name which this persister maps.

The ISessionFactory to which this persister "belongs".

Does this class have a cache?

Does this class declare any cascading save/update/deletes?

Do instances of this class contain collections?

Does the class have a property holding the identifier value?

Does this entity define any properties as being database-generated on insert?

Determine whether this entity defines any lazy properties (ala bytecode instrumentation).

Determine whether any properties of this entity are considered mutable.

Determine whether this entity defines a natural identifier.

Does this class support dynamic proxies?

Determine whether this entity contains references to persistent collections which are fetchable by subselect?

Does this entity define any properties as being database-generated on update?

Return the IIdentifierGenerator for the class

Get the name of the indentifier property (or return null) - need not return the name of an actual .NET property

Get the identifier type

Is batch loading enabled?

Should we always invalidate the cache instead of recaching updated state

Is the identifier assigned before the insert by an IDGenerator or is it returned by the Insert() method?

Determine whether the entity is inherited one or more other entities. In other words, is this entity a subclass of other entities.

Should lazy properties of this entity be cached?

Are instances of this class mutable?

Is select snapshot before update enabled?

Does this source represent versioned (i.e., and thus optimistically lockable) data?

Are instances of this class versioned by a timestamp or version number column?

Does this entity contain a version property that is defined to be database generated?

If the entity defines a natural id (HasNaturalIdentifier), which properties make up the natural id.

Get the cascade styles of the properties (optional operation)

Properties that may be dirty (and thus should be dirty-checked). These include all updatable properties and some associations.

Gets if the Property is insertable.

Which of the properties of this class are database generated values on insert?

Get the names of the class properties - doesn't have to be the names of the actual .NET properties (used for XML generation only)

Get the nullability of the properties of this class

Returns an array of objects that identify spaces in which properties of this entity are persisted, for instances of this class only.

Get the Hibernate types of the class properties

Gets if the Property is updatable

Which of the properties of this class are database generated values on update?

Get the "versionability" of the properties of this class (is the property optimistic-locked)

Returns an array of objects that identify spaces in which properties of this entity are persisted, for instances of this class and its subclasses.

Returns an object that identifies the space in which identifiers of this entity hierarchy are unique.

Get the comparator used to compare two different version values together.

Which property holds the version number? (optional operation)

Get the type of versioning (optional operation)