1 /* Copyright 2004 Brian McCallister
2 *
3 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
4 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
5 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
6 *
7 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
8 *
9 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
10 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
11 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
12 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
13 * limitations under the License.
14 */
15 package org.skife.lucene.graph;
16
17 /***
18 * Used for class names as "org.example.model.Wombat" is much less convenient than "wombat".
19 * For bean properties, property names are used. This is simply for translating the names
20 * of the roots of train wrecks, the "wombat" in "wombat.name: George" for example
21 */
22 public interface NameMapper
23 {
24 /***
25 * Return the string to be used as the root of the property chain
26 * field names for entity
27 */
28 public String build(final Object entity);
29 }