javax.persistence

## Annotation Type AttributeOverride

-     @Target(value={TYPE,METHOD,FIELD})
      @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
      public @interface AttributeOverride

  Used to override the mapping of a `Basic` (whether explicit or default) property or field or `Id` property or field.

  May be applied to an entity that extends a mapped superclass or to an embedded field or property to override a basic mapping or id mapping defined by the mapped superclass or embeddable class (or embeddable class of one of its attributes).

  May be applied to an element collection containing instances of an embeddable class or to a map collection whose key and/or value is an embeddable class. When `AttributeOverride` is applied to a map, "`key.`" or "`value.`" must be used to prefix the name of the attribute that is being overridden in order to specify it as part of the map key or map value.

  To override mappings at multiple levels of embedding, a dot (".") notation form must be used in the `name` element to indicate an attribute within an embedded attribute. The value of each identifier used with the dot notation is the name of the respective embedded field or property.

  If `AttributeOverride` is not specified, the column is mapped the same as in the original mapping.

          Example 1:

          @MappedSuperclass
          public class Employee {
              @Id protected Integer id;
              @Version protected Integer version;
              protected String address;
              public Integer getId() { ... }
              public void setId(Integer id) { ... }
              public String getAddress() { ... }
              public void setAddress(String address) { ... }
          }

          @Entity
          @AttributeOverride(name="address", column=@Column(name="ADDR"))
          public class PartTimeEmployee extends Employee {
              // address field mapping overridden to ADDR
              protected Float wage();
              public Float getHourlyWage() { ... }
              public void setHourlyWage(Float wage) { ... }
          }

          Example 2:

          @Embeddable public class Address {
              protected String street;
              protected String city;
              protected String state;
              @Embedded protected Zipcode zipcode;
          }

          @Embeddable public class Zipcode {
              protected String zip;
              protected String plusFour;
          }

          @Entity public class Customer {
              @Id protected Integer id;
              protected String name;
              @AttributeOverrides({
                  @AttributeOverride(name="state",
                                     column=@Column(name="ADDR_STATE")),
                  @AttributeOverride(name="zipcode.zip",
                                     column=@Column(name="ADDR_ZIP"))
              })
              @Embedded protected Address address;
              ...
          }

          Example 3:

          @Entity public class PropertyRecord {
              @EmbeddedId PropertyOwner owner;
              @AttributeOverrides({
                  @AttributeOverride(name="key.street",
                                     column=@Column(name="STREET_NAME")),
                  @AttributeOverride(name="value.size",
                                     column=@Column(name="SQUARE_FEET")),
                  @AttributeOverride(name="value.tax",
                                     column=@Column(name="ASSESSMENT"))
              })
             @ElementCollection
             Map<Address, PropertyInfo> parcels;
          }

         @Embeddable public class PropertyInfo {
             Integer parcelNumber;
             Integer size;
             BigDecimal tax;
         }

  Since:
    Java Persistence 1.0
  See Also:
    `Embedded`, `Embeddable`, `MappedSuperclass`, `AssociationOverride`

- - ### Required Element Summary

    Required Elements
    Modifier and Type | Required Element and Description
    --- | ---
    `Column` | `column` (Required) The column that is being mapped to the persistent attribute.
    `String` | `name` (Required) The name of the property whose mapping is being overridden if property-based access is being used, or the name of the field if field-based access is used.

- - ### Element Detail

    - #### name

          public abstract String name

      (Required) The name of the property whose mapping is being overridden if property-based access is being used, or the name of the field if field-based access is used.

    - #### column

          public abstract Column column

      (Required) The column that is being mapped to the persistent attribute. The mapping type will remain the same as is defined in the embeddable class or mapped superclass.

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