Hi all Touching on an old subject that has now become more important with field-based Data Objects.
All of my DataObjects use accessor methods without the "get"-prefix. This was fine with Map Based data objects (where a MapAccessor would get property values by name), but now that my objects are field based, along comes BeanAccessor which is hardcoded to have every getter prefixed. I propose that BeanAccessor be modified to allow accessor methods without the "get"-prefix. Methods with "get" would get precedence, but if no method with a "get"-prefix exists, check for the existence of a method with only the property name. Although it's a minimal change in code, I realise it comes with a bit of potential baggage WRT testing. But this is not just to scratch a personal itch; once Cayenne 4.0 is out I want to start a large scale introduction of Cayenne to the EOF world where the get prefix is generally not liked and this change would have a big appeal. Besides, I'm not a big fan of the get-prefix myself, I find it a bit redundant :). An alternative would be to adhere to the Bean standard, and make BeanAccessor read bean meta information (usually specified in *BeanInfo classes) and get names of getter/setter methods from there. But that would be a much larger change than just checking for a method with propertyName if the getPropertyName method doesn't exist. What do you think? Cheers, - hugi
