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

import java.util.List;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Much like {@link RootEntityResultTransformer}, but we also distinct
 * the entity in the final result.
 * <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 class DistinctRootEntityResultTransformer implements ResultTransformer, Serializable {

	public static final DistinctRootEntityResultTransformer INSTANCE = new DistinctRootEntityResultTransformer();

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

	/**
	 * Simply delegates to {@link RootEntityResultTransformer#transformTuple}.
	 *
	 * @param tuple The tuple to transform
	 * @param aliases The tuple aliases
	 * @return The transformed tuple row.
	 */
	public Object transformTuple(Object[] tuple, String[] aliases) {
		return RootEntityResultTransformer.INSTANCE.transformTuple( tuple, aliases );
	}

	/**
	 * Simply delegates to {@link DistinctResultTransformer#transformList}.
	 *
	 * @param list The list to transform.
	 * @return The transformed List.
	 */
	public List transformList(List list) {
		return DistinctResultTransformer.INSTANCE.transformList( list );
	}

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

}
