Unlike WO key-value coding, Java standard convention (called
JavaBeans) is to use the "getXyz" for an accessor method of a logical
property "xyz". All the Expression classes (and endless other Java
libraries) follow this convention, so I'd strongly recommend not to
modify the getters. You'll have to get used to it, it took me quite
some time to adapt too :-)
Andrus
On Apr 4, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Cyp her wrote:
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
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