using only get methods in persistent classes ?

priyam · **Joined:** Tue Dec 02, 2003 1:08 pm **Posts:** 5

Hi,

I'm working on an application in which my persistent classes are created by parsing through a text file, extracting necessary information and populating the classes through a constructor. These properties can only be set once and they can never be modified. For this reason, the classes only have get methods to access the variables. This was giving me the exception

net.sf.hibernate.PropertyNotFoundException: Could not find a setter for property .... in class ....

I think I read somewhere that this issue was resolved in version 2.1rc1 which I have now downloaded to use, but I cannot find any documentation on how to do so. Could someone please point me in the correct direction or let me know if it is even possible to do so using Hibernate?

Thanks,
Priya

micho2001 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2003 2:50 pm

Use the update attribute in the property tag and create your setter method.

i.e

Code:

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class
        name="com.cce.domain.Chapter"
        table="projectchapter"
        dynamic-update="false"
        dynamic-insert="true"
    >

        <id
            name="id"
            column="id"
            type="long"
            unsaved-value="0"
        >
            <generator class="native">
            </generator>
        </id>

        <property
            name="unmutable_property"
            type="java.lang.String"
            [b]update="false"[/b]
            insert="true"
            column="unmutalble_column"
            not-null="true"
        />
</class>

Hope it helps.

michael · **Posted:** Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:07 pm

You can also use the access=field atribute of the property mapping

priyam · **Joined:** Tue Dec 02, 2003 1:08 pm **Posts:** 5

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the replies. The access=field attribute did the trick !!

Priya