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package com.mmnaseri.dragonfly.metadata;

/**
 * This interface encapsulates cascade metadata defined for an entity
 *
 * @author Milad Naseri (mmnaseri@programmer.net)
 * @since 1.0 (2013/9/12, 0:08)
 */
public interface CascadeMetadata {

    /**
     * @return {@code true} if persist operations should be cascaded
     */
    boolean cascadePersist();

    /**
     * @return {@code true} if merge (update) operations should be cascaded
     */
    boolean cascadeMerge();

    /**
     * @return {@code true} if remove operations should be cascaded
     */
    boolean cascadeRemove();

    /**
     * @return {@code true} if refresh (load) operations should be cascaded
     */
    boolean cascadeRefresh();

}
