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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.transform;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * {@link ResultTransformer} implementation which limits the result tuple
 * to only the "root entity".
 * <p/>
 * Since this transformer is stateless, all instances would be considered equal.
 * So for optimization purposes we limit it to a single, singleton {@link #INSTANCE instance}.
 *
 * @author Gavin King
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public final class RootEntityResultTransformer extends BasicTransformerAdapter implements Serializable {

	public static final RootEntityResultTransformer INSTANCE = new RootEntityResultTransformer();

	/**
	 * Disallow instantiation of RootEntityResultTransformer.
	 */
	private RootEntityResultTransformer() {
	}

	/**
	 * Return just the root entity from the row tuple.
	 */
	public Object transformTuple(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases) {
		return tuple[ tuple.length-1 ];
	}

	/**
	 * Serialization hook for ensuring singleton uniqueing.
	 *
	 * @return The singleton instance : {@link #INSTANCE}
	 */
	private Object readResolve() {
		return INSTANCE;
	}
}
