Hibernate version:
3.0

Hi,

I'm quite new to hibernate and I thought that I need to use a „getter“ to read the attribute from the database. At lest I had this behavior as I saved (the important part from) a swing JPanel as a UserType. If I now retrieving the JPanel Object the attributes aren't loaded until I call the “getter”. I would like to retrieve the Object and just show it.

However, now I read the “Versant Spam” article with the line “Hibernate does not require getters and setters, as is clearly described in many places on the Hibernate website.”
I can't find it. Maybe anybody can give me the URL.

Thank you!

Richard

Check the reference documentation.

Hi Christian,

Do you mind to be a little bit more specific? I can't find it. There are just a few words about setter in “1.2. First persistent class”. But the statement “(Hibernate can also access fields directly, if needed)” don't fit to the example where every fiend has a setter/getter.

The next time where setter appears is in “8.1. Dependent objects” which isn't what I'm interested in.

So, can you give me a hint? Thanks!

Richard

Hibernate is very happy to use getters and setters for accessing data. If your persistent object has them for the fields you need, you don't need to worry about this at all.

If you need to persist a field that does not have a getter/setter, you can use the access="field" property attribute to access the field (through reflection, I think).

If your object is being saved correctly, but the fields aren't being initialized when retrieved, you want to look into 'lazy loading' and ways of turning it off.