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 * Contributors:
 *     Oracle - initial API and implementation from Oracle TopLink
 *     05/16/2008-1.0M8 Guy Pelletier 
 *       - 218084: Implement metadata merging functionality between mapping files
 *     04/27/2010-2.1 Guy Pelletier 
 *       - 309856: MappedSuperclasses from XML are not being initialized properly
 *     03/24/2011-2.3 Guy Pelletier 
 *       - 337323: Multi-tenant with shared schema support (part 1)
 ******************************************************************************/  
package org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.accessors.mappings;

import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.jpa.metadata.accessors.mappings.MappingAccessor;

/**
 * INTERNAL:
 * An transient accessor ... which does nothing ... just a clever way to
 * make sure we don't process the accessible object for annotations.
 * 
 * Key notes:
 * - any metadata mapped from XML to this class must be compared in the
 *   equals method.
 * - any metadata mapped from XML to this class must be handled in the merge
 *   method. (merging is done at the accessor/mapping level)
 * - any metadata mapped from XML to this class must be initialized in the
 *   initXMLObject  method.
 * - methods should be preserved in alphabetical order.
 * 
 * @author Guy Pelletier
 * @since TopLink EJB 3.0 Reference Implementation
 */
public class TransientAccessor extends MappingAccessor {
    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     */
    public TransientAccessor() {
        super("<transient>");
    }
    
    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     */
    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object objectToCompare) {
        return super.equals(objectToCompare) && objectToCompare instanceof TransientAccessor;
    }

    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     * Return true if this accessor represents a transient mapping.
     */
    public boolean isTransient() {
        return true;
    }
    
    /**
     * INTERNAL:
     */
    public void process() {
        // Does nothing ...
    }
}
