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Enum DeleteAction</H2>
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<DT><PRE>public enum <B>DeleteAction</B><DT>extends <A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html" title="class or interface in java.lang">Enum</A><<A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/persist/model/DeleteAction.html" title="enum in com.sleepycat.persist.model">DeleteAction</A>></DL>
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Specifies the action to take when a related entity is deleted having a
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/persist/model/DeleteAction.html#ABORT">ABORT</A></B></CODE>
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The default action, <code>ABORT</code>, means that a <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/db/DatabaseException.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.db"><CODE>DatabaseException</CODE></A> is thrown in order to abort the current transaction.</TD>
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ABORT</H3>
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public static final <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/persist/model/DeleteAction.html" title="enum in com.sleepycat.persist.model">DeleteAction</A> <B>ABORT</B></PRE>
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<DD>The default action, <code>ABORT</code>, means that a <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/db/DatabaseException.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.db"><CODE>DatabaseException</CODE></A> is thrown in order to abort the current transaction.
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CASCADE</H3>
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<DD>If <code>CASCADE</code> is specified, then this entity will be deleted also,
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NULLIFY</H3>
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public static final <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/persist/model/DeleteAction.html" title="enum in com.sleepycat.persist.model">DeleteAction</A> <B>NULLIFY</B></PRE>
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is set to null and this entity is updated. For a secondary key field
that has an array or collection type, the array or collection element
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public static final <A HREF="../../../../com/sleepycat/persist/model/DeleteAction.html" title="enum in com.sleepycat.persist.model">DeleteAction</A>[] <B>values</B>()</PRE>
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