On 5 Jan 2014, at 18:40, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote:
> Historically annotation binding within Hibernate made a huge assumption > that AccessType and PropertyAccessor were the same thing. They aren't > necessarily. AccessType is simply meant to dictate where to look for > annotations relating to "persistent attributes". PropertyAccessor is > Hibernate's way of accessing property values (getting/setting) at runtime. > > Granted, AccessType *by default* should indicate the PropertyAccessor to > use. I am not arguing that. I am just suggesting that we should keep both > as distinct values. At the moment we collapse them into a single String > (we dump AccessType and keep "PropertyAccessor name"). > > The trouble is that later on we sometimes need to know the AccessType, at > which point we are forced to make a guess by interpreting the > PropertyAccessor in use and hoping that a custom PropertyAccessor was not > supplied. I don’t know where it is exactly where you need the distinction, but if you do, I also think they should be kept separated. Also having distinct concepts for this maybe makes concepts also a bit clearer. +1 from me —Hardy _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
