com.amazon.carbonado.lob

Interface Lob

All Known Subinterfaces:

Blob, Clob

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractBlob, AbstractClob, BlobClob, ByteArrayBlob, CharArrayClob, FileBlob, StringClob

public interface Lob

Marker interface for Blobs and Clobs.

Author:

Brian S O'Neill

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj) Two Lobs are considered equal if the object instances are the same or if they point to the same content.
java.lang.Object	getLocator() Returns an object which identifies the Lob data, which may be null if not supported.

Method Detail

getLocator

java.lang.Object getLocator()

Returns an object which identifies the Lob data, which may be null if not supported.

Since:

1.2

equals

boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Two Lobs are considered equal if the object instances are the same or if they point to the same content. Lob data is not compared, as that would be expensive or it may result in a fetch exception.

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object