ColumnMapperFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

BitStringEnumSetMapperFactory, BlobInputStreamColumnMapperFactory, BoxedMapperFactory, BuiltInMapperFactory, ClobReaderColumnMapperFactory, DurationColumnMapperFactory, EnumByNameMapperFactory, EnumByOrdinalMapperFactory, EssentialsMapperFactory, GetObjectColumnMapperFactory, InternetMapperFactory, JavaTimeMapperFactory, JavaTimeMapperFactory, JsonColumnMapperFactory, OptionalMapperFactory, PeriodColumnMapperFactory, PGobjectColumnMapperFactory, PrimitiveMapperFactory, SqlArrayMapperFactory, SqlTimeMapperFactory

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
```
@FunctionalInterface
public interface ColumnMapperFactory
```
Factory interface used to produce column mappers.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.util.Optional<ColumnMapper<?>>`	`build(java.lang.reflect.Type type, ConfigRegistry config)`	Supplies a column mapper which will map columns to type if the factory supports it; empty otherwise.
`static ColumnMapperFactory`	`of(java.lang.reflect.Type type, ColumnMapper<?> mapper)`	Create a ColumnMapperFactory from a given `ColumnMapper` that matches a single Type exactly.

- Method Detail
  - build
```
java.util.Optional<ColumnMapper<?>> build(java.lang.reflect.Type type,
                                          ConfigRegistry config)
```
    Supplies a column mapper which will map columns to type if the factory supports it; empty otherwise.
    
    Parameters:
    
    type - the target type to map to
    
    config - the config registry, for composition
    
    Returns:
    
    a column mapper for the given type if this factory supports it, or Optional.empty() otherwise.
    
    See Also:
    
    for composition
  - of
```
static ColumnMapperFactory of(java.lang.reflect.Type type,
                              ColumnMapper<?> mapper)
```
    Create a ColumnMapperFactory from a given ColumnMapper that matches a single Type exactly.
    
    Parameters:
    
    type - the type to match with equals.
    
    mapper - the mapper to return
    
    Returns:
    
    the factory