I'm having trouble with the equals() methods of my persistent object, shich seems to be a result of CGLIB enhancement. I'm not sure how to tell Hibernate to produce enhanced classes that don't break my code...

Here's a simplified example:

class Foo {
private String fooProp;
public String getFooProp() ...
public boolean equals(Object other) {
if (other == null) return false;
if (! other instanceof Foo) return false;
if (! fooProp.equals((Foo) other).fooProp) return false;
return true;
}
}

The problem is that, when other has been enhanced, other.fooProp is evaluating to null. other.getFooProp() returns the correct value, though.

So, short of rewritinging every line of code I have that references a field directly to use accessors, how do I fix this? Is there something I can configure to make the bytecode enhancement more robust?

L.

AFAIK you have to re-write everything to use accessors.

Use field access instead of property access.

OK, I just tried changing my mappings to use field access, and I'm seeing the same problem. I've tried setting default-access="field" on the <hibernate-mapping/> element, as well as access="field" on the individual <property/> elements, and the fields are still null.

Am I missing something? Is this the wrong way to specifiy field access?

Is there a way to specify the default globally (for all mappings)? I couldn't see anything in the Configuration section of the documentation about that.

Thanks,

L.