Field/property access defined per field

rwwilden · **Joined:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:57 am **Posts:** 10

Hi,

Is it possible with EJB 3.0 (or Hibernate) annotations to specify access strategies per field? I have an id field with only a getter since a setter seems weird for an assigned primary key. So I'd like to specify to my id field should be accessed by field. However, my other properties should be accessed by property get/set.

I can only find the class-level @Entity annotation where AccessType can be set, no field-level annotations.

My class file is like this:

Code:

@Entity(access = AccessType.PROPERTY)
public class Term {
   @Id
   private Long id;
   private String otherProperty;

   public Long getId() { return id; }
   
   public String getOtherProperty() { return otherProperty; }
   public void setOtherProperty(String param) { otherProperty = param; }
}

How do I specify that id is accessed by field and otherProperty by property?

Regards,
Ronald Wildenberg

rwwilden · **Joined:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:57 am **Posts:** 10

Of course it is possible to define a method

Code:

private void setId(Long id) { this.id = id; }

to solve this particular problem (which I have done for now like this), but then the question still holds whether field-specific access types can be defined.

Regards,
Ronald Wildenberg

emmanuel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:13 am

access type is only class level

rwwilden · **Joined:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:57 am **Posts:** 10

Ok, but if I use xml mappings, I can specify an access attribute per property element. I was expecting something similar to be possible using annotations.

emmanuel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:42 am

Well, that's life :-)
I'll probably enhance that at some point when I'll allow custom access strategy, but I don't have the time right now. Contributions always welcome.

rwwilden · **Joined:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:57 am **Posts:** 10

Well, I'm a little short of spare time myself, so don't count on any contributions :)

Good luck.