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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+package com.cloud.vm.snapshot;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+import javax.persistence.Column;
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.EnumType;
+import javax.persistence.Enumerated;
+import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
+import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+import javax.persistence.Table;
+import javax.persistence.TableGenerator;
+import javax.persistence.Temporal;
+import javax.persistence.TemporalType;
+
+import com.cloud.utils.db.GenericDao;
+
+@Entity
+@Table(name = "vm_snapshots")
+public class VMSnapshotVO implements VMSnapshot {
+    @Id
+    @TableGenerator(name = "vm_snapshots_sq", table = "sequence", pkColumnName = "name", valueColumnName = "value", pkColumnValue = "vm_snapshots_seq", allocationSize = 1)
+    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.TABLE)
+    @Column(name = "id")
+    long id;
+
+    @Column(name = "uuid")
+    String uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
+
+    @Column(name = "name")
+    String name;
+
+    @Column(name = "display_name")
+    String displayName;
+
+    @Column(name = "description")
+    String description;
+
+    @Column(name = "vm_id")
+    long vmId;
+
+    @Column(name = "account_id")
+    long accountId;
+
+    @Column(name = "domain_id")
+    long domainId;
+
+    @Column(name = "vm_snapshot_type")
+    @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)
+    VMSnapshot.Type type;
+
+    @Column(name = "state", updatable = true, nullable = false)
+    @Enumerated(value = EnumType.STRING)
+    private State state;
+
+    @Column(name = GenericDao.CREATED_COLUMN)
+    Date created;
+
+    @Column(name = GenericDao.REMOVED_COLUMN)
+    Date removed;
+
+    @Column(name = "current")
+    Boolean current;
+    
+    @Column(name = "parent")
+    Long parent;
+    
+    @Column(name = "updated")
+    @Temporal(value = TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
+    Date updated;
+    
+    @Column(name="update_count", updatable = true, nullable=false)
+    protected long updatedCount;
+    
+    public Long getParent() {
+		return parent;
+	}
+
+	public void setParent(Long parent) {
+		this.parent = parent;
+	}
+
+	public VMSnapshotVO() {
+
+    }
+
+    public Date getRemoved() {
+        return removed;
+    }
+
+    public VMSnapshotVO(Long accountId, Long domainId, Long vmId,
+            String description, String vmSnapshotName, String vsDisplayName,
+            Long serviceOfferingId, Type type, Boolean current) {
+        this.accountId = accountId;
+        this.domainId = domainId;
+        this.vmId = vmId;
+        this.state = State.Allocated;
+        this.description = description;
+        this.name = vmSnapshotName;
+        this.displayName = vsDisplayName;
+        this.type = type;
+        this.current = current;
+    }
+
+    public String getDescription() {
+        return description;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Date getCreated() {
+        return created;
+    }
+
+    public void setCreated(Date created) {
+        this.created = created;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getId() {
+        return id;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Long getVmId() {
+        return vmId;
+    }
+
+    public void setVmId(Long vmId) {
+        this.vmId = vmId;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    public void setName(String name) {
+        this.name = name;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public State getState() {
+        return state;
+    }
+
+    public void setState(State state) {
+        this.state = state;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getUuid() {
+        return uuid;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getAccountId() {
+        return accountId;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getDomainId() {
+        return domainId;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getDisplayName() {
+        return displayName;
+    }
+
+    public void setDisplayName(String displayName) {
+        this.displayName = displayName;
+    }
+
+	public Boolean getCurrent() {
+		return current;
+	}
+
+	public void setCurrent(Boolean current) {
+		this.current = current;
+	}
+
+    @Override
+    public long getUpdatedCount() {
+        return updatedCount;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void incrUpdatedCount() {
+        this.updatedCount++;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Date getUpdated() {
+        return updated;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Type getType() {
+        return type;
+    }
+    
+    public void setRemoved(Date removed) {
+        this.removed = removed;
+    }
+}