. */ namespace Doctrine\ORM\Mapping; /** * A ClassMetadata instance holds all the object-relational mapping metadata * of an entity and it's associations. * * Once populated, ClassMetadata instances are usually cached in a serialized form. * * IMPORTANT NOTE: * * The fields of this class are only public for 2 reasons: * 1) To allow fast READ access. * 2) To drastically reduce the size of a serialized instance (private/protected members * get the whole class name, namespace inclusive, prepended to every property in * the serialized representation). * * @author Roman Borschel * @author Jonathan H. Wage * @since 2.0 */ class ClassMetadata extends ClassMetadataInfo { }