Get the cache

Get the cache structure

Is cascade delete handled by the database-level foreign key constraint definition?

Get the "space" that holds the persistent state

Get the associated IType

Return the element class of an array, or null otherwise

Get the names of the collection element columns (or the primary key columns in the case of a one-to-many association)

Get the persister of the element class, if this is a collection of entities (optional operation). Note that for a one-to-many association, the returned persister must be OuterJoinLoadable.

Get the "element" type

Should we load this collection role by outer joining?

Is this collection role cacheable

Is this an "indexed" collection? (list or map)

Is this an ordered collection? (An ordered collection is ordered by the initialization operation, not by sorting that happens in memory, as in the case of a sorted collection.)

Does this collection implement "orphan delete"?

Does this collection role have a where clause filter?

Get the surrogate key generation strategy (optional operation)

Get the type of the surrogate key

Get the names of the collection index columns if this is an indexed collection (optional operation)

Get the index formulas if this is an indexed collection (optional operation)

Get the "index" type for a list or map (optional operation)

Is this an array?

Is this instance actually a ICollectionPersister?

Is this collection "inverse", so state changes are not propogated to the database.

Is this collection lazily initialized?

Is this a many-to-many association? Note that this is mainly a convenience feature as the single persister does not contain all the information needed to handle a many-to-many itself, as internally it is looked at as two many-to-ones.

Can the elements of this collection change?

Is this a one-to-many association?

Is this an array or primitive values?

Does this collection cause version increment of the owning entity?

The columns to join on.

Get the "key" type (the type of the foreign key)

An identifying name; a class name or collection role name.

A place-holder to inform that the data-reader was empty.

Get the persister of the entity that "owns" this collection

Get the name of this collection role (the fully qualified class name, extended by a "property path")

The table to join to.

Get the type of the thing containing the properties