Hi

I was trying to find an example on how to define a user customized Setter and Getter (I mean, I know how to implement it, I just couldn't find the correct place to define it in the configuration, i.e. map the setter/getter to the correct class...). I was wondering if someone could point the place in the documentation on how to do that (I might have been looking for the wrong terms..).

thanks
Gadi

You do not need to map custom methods, use properties without side effect for mapping and add as many methods as you need for side effects or encapsulation.

I'm not sure I understand how this could help, I'll try with an example:
I have a property which is a user defined type, and I don't want to (actually can't) make it extend UserType, and I don't want to serialize it (I will if I had to, overriding the serialzation methods) - its getter and setter need to return its type (can't return something else - there are clients already using it). So, providing my own Getter and Setter for this class should work fine (I'll place the same logic there as I'd have done in the serialization code, but I think that's what the Setter/Getter hooks are there for, isn't it?)

Perhaps I got this wrong, but
your user defined type does not need to implement UserType.

The UserType class is parallel to your user defined type.
It just creates and uses them.

And I forgot, if you want to have an example
for custom accessors, look at:
BasicPropertyAccessor
thats the one hibernate is using.

ok, great, now, the only thing I'm missing is how to map my own custom Accessor into Hibernate (hopefully there's a way to do that without extending PropertyAccessorFactory)

use the name of your custom class in the access attribute:

Thanks!