Hibernate: setter and getter with different names as field

Question

Let's assume I have the String property fullName but I want to represent it as two separate strings as shown in the example below.

Is it possible to set up Hibernate so that it stores the full name in a single column and uses the accessor methods (getFullName, setFullName) to do that ?

The problem is that I do not want to declare - just to make Hibernate happy - an unnecessary String field fullName which will not be used because that would decrease the cleanness of the code.

String lastName;
String firstName;
public String getFullName() {
     return firstName+" "+lastName;
}
public void setFullName(String n) {
     firstName=extractFirstName(n);
     lastName=extractLastName(n);
}

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '14 at 00:37

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You can use transient annotation to make Hibernate ignore methods as you like:

@Transient
public String getFullName() {
     return firstName+" "+lastName;
}

@Transient
public void setFullName(String n) {
     firstName=extractFirstName(n);
     lastName=extractLastName(n);
}

answered Mar 11 '14 at 00:37

Ean V

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I would like Hibernate to store the fullName via those very methods. – jhegedus Mar 11 '14 at 00:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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Yes you could annotate the getFullname method to store it to a column in database.

Check this link:

Hibernate Annotations - Which is better, field or property access?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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answered Mar 11 '14 at 00:39

Henrik

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Hibernate: setter and getter with different names as field

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