Having the get prefix makes it beanie. This is really important when using other tools, such as OGNL in Tapestry, which you mentioned earlier. OGNL expects the get prefix when evaluating the expressions.
/dev/mrg -----Original Message----- From: Cyp her [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: cayenne get accessors Hi Does Cayenne force you to have *get* before your property name to create your get accessor e.g. getName(). I have a table like this PERSON id firstName lastName and the Modeler creates these accessors public class _Person extends CayenneDataObject { public String getFirstName() ... public String getLastName() ... } Which is fine. I have read you can get custom templates to change this and I did try by grabbing the default templates from the jar and modifying them but this did not work. Does anybody know how? My real problems start here however. In the subclass Person I have this code public class Person extends _Person { public String fullName() { return this.getFirstName() + " " + this.getLastName(); } } and when I try and use and Expression to get a particular Person like this Expression fullNameQualifier = ExpressionFactory.matchExp("fullName", "John Doe"); List filteredPersons = fullNameQualifier.filterObjects(personsList); The List is always empty even though I do have a person named John Doe in my database (MySQL). But oddly enough if I change my method in the Person class to be this public class Person extends _Person { public String getFullName() { return this.getFirstName + " " + this.getLastName; } } i.e. change the method name to be getFullName instead of just fullName. Why must I prefix all my get accessors with *get*? I want to get rid of *get* in all the super classes too so does anyone have a template I can use to oust them? Lawrence _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters
