Hi

My persisted entity has a primitive "selected" boolean field that does not require persistence. When the entity is loaded, however, the PropertyAccessException is thrown, as the setter for selected requires a non-null, non-primitive value. Without declaring the field as a column, I cannot tell hibernate to set the field to not-nullable.



All answers on the web tell me to change the primitive to it's wrapper type, but I'd like to avoid this as it forces me to put in unnessecarry null-checks in controller logic.

Is there a way I can retain the primitive type on this entity?

Thanks in advance!

If it DOES NOT require to be persisted why are u mapping it? If u are using xml-mapping:
<class name="Person">
<property name="selected"/>
...
</class>

remove the <property name="selected"/> line altogether, Hibernate doesn't need to know about it.
And if u are using annotations,
@Transient
boolean selected;