Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization

From:
lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:51:10 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
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On Jul 24, 8:07 am, Thomas Lehmann
<thomas.lehmann.priv...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi,

probably a silly question. I have a class and some members will be
initialized only when calling a 'create' method. I'm using Eclipse and
there I get a warning "Found non-transient, non-static member. Please
mark as transient or provide accessors."

My question is now how to handle it correct. When I provide a setter
(assume a creation date) then I could set the creation date to another
as initialized when calling 'create'. That's why I wouldn't provide a
setter for this member. But obviously the warning want to tell me that


Did you declare the attribute as 'final'? If you want to protect a
member variable from change, that's often the best way. It has other
benefits as well.

I might have problems with the serialization then obviously requiring
that the setter exists (and yes I'm intending to do serialization -
probably XML).

Could you please give some helpful comments on this?


Could you please give us an SSCCE?
http://sscce.org/

As markspace points out, we need some context here.

To grok serialization, you should rigorously study the material in
Joshua Bloch's seminal book /Effective Java/, which thoroughly covers
the risks and best practices involved.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/
Chapter 11

--
Lew

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