Annotations only recognized on getters, not setters

keenan · **Joined:** Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:05 pm **Posts:** 24

Hibernate version:
Hibernate 3.1.1, Annotations 3.1B8

I recently put a @Id annotation on the setter half of a getter/setter pair of methods defining a property, and it was ignored. Moving the annotation to the getter method worked. I was using "property" style annotations, not "field".

I didn't see anything in the persistence or Java Beans specs that gave priority to the getter side, so I'm thinking this might be an annotations bug, but wanted to check before filing with Jira.
--keenan

eyall · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:32 am **Posts:** 23

The Pulic Final Draft does say that the annotation should be set on the getters:

section 2.1.1

Quote:

"If the entity has property-based access, the persistence provider runtime accesses persistent
state via the property accessor methods. All properties not annotated with the Transient
annotation are persistent. The property accessor methods must be public or protected. When
property-based access is used, the object/relational mapping annotations for the entity class
annotate the getter property accessors."

Eyal Lupu

Konstantin.Scheglov@home · **Joined:** Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:48 am **Posts:** 2

eyall wrote:

The Pulic Final Draft does say that the annotation should be set on the getters:

BTW, can anybody point me on this draft, especially on source of ejb3-persistance.jar? I can not find source for this jar in Hibernate distributive. I understand, that it is not part of Hibernate, but my naive google request did not hlp me in searching of sources.

eyall · **Joined:** Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:32 am **Posts:** 23

Hi,
You can find the spec's draft at the JCP site, the sources are at GlassFish project. This is the CVSView root of the annotations subtree:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/source/browse/glassfish/persistence-api/src/java/#dirlist

Eyal Lupu

Konstantin.Scheglov · **Joined:** Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:09 am **Posts:** 8

Thank you. Not so easy as just downlodable zip with sources, but at least I can see JavaDoc comments now.

keenan · **Joined:** Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:05 pm **Posts:** 24

Thanks Eyal, you've better eyes than I.
--keenan

emmanuel · **Posted:** Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:03 pm

The one I use are in the hibernate CVS in HibernateExt/ejb-api
I usually catch up faster than Sun