Generics and _There is no WRITEABLE property_ exception

[Martín Capote]

Hi, sorry for my english, I speak spanish.
I have a question about generics.
I have an application running with ibatis 2.3.0, and I tried to 'generify'
some parts.
 
I introduce the "Keyable" interface:
 
public interface Keyable<K extends Key> {
 
    public K getKey();
 
    public void setKey(K key);
 
}
 

The Key is a simple abstract class:

 
public abstract class Key  {
    public Key() {
        super();
    }
}

 
Then, I declare my business object in this way :

 
public class Person implements Keyable<PersonKey> {
...
}

public class PersonKey extends Key {
    private String code;
....
}


And declare the resultMap in this way:
...
    <resultMap id="PersonResult" class="Person">
        <result property="key.code" column="CODE" />
...

But i get this error:

Caused by: com.ibatis.common.beans.ProbeException: There is no WRITEABLE
property named 'code' in class 'com.pack.Key'
        at
com.ibatis.common.beans.ClassInfo.getSetterType(ClassInfo.java:273)
        at
com.ibatis.common.beans.GenericProbe.getClassPropertyTypeForSetter(GenericPr
obe.java:248)
...



My first (and naive, I think) solution is:

- add the getPersonKey() method to the Person class (which returns
explicitly the PersonKey)
- modify the resultMap, so that the property look like this:
property="personKey.code"

But is an ugly solution, and a lot of work. 
And I want to retain the generics.
There is some better solution to this problem? 
Thanks
Martín