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Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization

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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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Getter/Setter - Serialization Thomas Lehmann <thomas.lehmann.private@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-24 08:07 -0700
  Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-24 08:30 -0700
    Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization Thomas Lehmann <thomas.lehmann.private@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-24 09:33 -0700
      Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-24 10:26 -0700
      Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-24 20:35 -0400
  Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-24 11:51 -0700
  Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-25 00:47 -0700

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