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 "element" type

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"?

Get the surrogate key generation strategy (optional operation)

Get the type of the surrogate key

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

Is this an array?

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?

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

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")