Quick Q about setter method signatures

SleepyBear · **Joined:** Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:16 pm **Posts:** 40

I'm using Hibernate 3, and I have a quick question about setters.

The standard setter signature is:

Code:

void setColor(String color);

which has a return type of void. Can I use other return types, like could I do this:

Code:

String setColor(String color);

I assume that Hibernate doesn't care what the return type is, right?

Thanks

max · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:37 am

have you tried it ?

I dont think it will pick it up since its not per-spec.

but since you can write your own PropertyAccessor implementation and use that for access attribute then you could do it your self ;)

mandaleeka · **Joined:** Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:43 am **Posts:** 6

What if ? access="field" hope it this helps.

Regards
Ramesh