com.simsilica.es

Interface PersistentEntityData

All Superinterfaces:

EntityData

All Known Implementing Classes:

SqlEntityData

public interface PersistentEntityData
extends EntityData

Represents a specialization of EntityData the will selectively persist certain components. By default, PersistentEntityData implementations will automatically persist all PersistentComponents but sometimes it is useful to be able to mark component types as persistent even if they do not implement PersistentEntity. (For example, library components that may leave it up to the game to decide persistability.)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T extends EntityComponent> void	markPersistentType(java.lang.Class<T> type) Marks the specified type as being persistent in this particular EntityData implementation.

Methods inherited from interface com.simsilica.es.EntityData

close, createEntity, findEntities, findEntity, getComponent, getEntities, getEntities, getEntity, getStrings, removeComponent, removeEntity, setComponent, setComponents, watchEntity

Method Detail

markPersistentType

<T extends EntityComponent> void markPersistentType(java.lang.Class<T> type)

Marks the specified type as being persistent in this particular EntityData implementation. If the EntityData implementation is no longer in a state where the type can be marked or the type has already been accessed in a non-persistent way then this method may throw an IllegalStateException.