What is the purpose of AccessType.FIELD, AccessType.PROPERTY and @Access

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By default the access type is defined by the place where you put your identifier annotation (@Id). If you put it on the field – it will be AccessType.FIELD, if you put it on the getter – it will be AccessType.PROPERTY.

Sometimes you might want to annotate not fields but properties (e.g. because you want to have some arbitrary logic in the getter or because you prefer it that way.) In such situation you must define a getter and annotate it as AccessType.PROPERTY.

As far as I remember, if you specify either AccessType.FIELD or AccessType.PROPERTY on any of the entity fields / methods you must specify the default behaviour for the whole class. And that’s why you need to have AccessType.FIELD on the class level (despite that AccessType.FIELD is the default value.)

Now, if you wouldn’t have @Transient on the phnnumber field, the JPA would provide you with a 3 columns table:

  • id,
  • phnnumber,
  • getphnnumber.

That’s because it would use AccessType.FIELD for all of the entity fields (id and phnnumber) and, at the same time, it’d use AccessType.PROPERTY for your getter (getPhnnumber()).
You’ll end with phone number mapped twice in the database.

Therefore, the @Transient annotation is required – it means that the entity won’t store the value of the field in the underlying storage but the value returned by your getter.

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