EntityReference (Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0.0.GA public API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

EntityReference

All Known Implementing Classes:

HibernateOrmEntityReference, PojoEntityReference
```
public interface EntityReference
```
A reference to an indexed or contained entity.

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  Object id()
  
  String name()
  
  Class<?> type()

- Method Detail
  - type
```
Class<?> type()
```
    Returns:
    
    The type of the referenced entity.
  - name
```
String name()
```
    Returns:
    
    The name of the referenced entity.
  - id
```
Object id()
```
    Returns:
    
    The identifier of the referenced entity for Hibernate Search. This is the value of the property used to generate the document ID, which is generally also the entity ID (though depending on the mapping this may be another unique property).