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Interface EntityBinding</H2>
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<DT><B>All Known Implementing Classes:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/serial/SerialSerialBinding.html">SerialSerialBinding</A>, <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/serial/TupleSerialBinding.html">TupleSerialBinding</A>, <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleTupleBinding.html">TupleTupleBinding</A></DD>
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<DT>public interface <B>EntityBinding</B></DL>
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The interface implemented by all entity or key/data-to-object bindings.
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<CODE> <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html">Object</A></CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/EntityBinding.html#dataToObject(com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.DataBuffer, com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.DataBuffer)">dataToObject</A></B>(<A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/DataBuffer.html">DataBuffer</A> key,
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Converts key and value data buffers into an entity Object.</TD>
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Returns the format used for the key data of this binding.</TD>
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Returns the format used for the value data of this binding.</TD>
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/EntityBinding.html#objectToKey(java.lang.Object, com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.DataBuffer)">objectToKey</A></B>(<A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html">Object</A> object,
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Extracts the key data from an entity Object.</TD>
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Extracts the value data from an entity Object.</TD>
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public <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html">Object</A> <B>dataToObject</B>(<A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/DataBuffer.html">DataBuffer</A> key,
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<DD>Converts key and value data buffers into an entity Object.
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<DD>Extracts the key data from an entity Object.
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<DD>Extracts the value data from an entity Object.
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getKeyFormat</H3>
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getValueFormat</H3>
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