Re: How to control access to certain fields in a bean map.

[Rodrigo Ruiz]

I guess you will not have access at either side of your application. 
Axis bean serialization / deserialization needs all fields to have 
setter and getter methods. Bean instances are created through the 
default constructor (with no parameters), so your ID initialization will 
not be executed.

AFAIK, there is no easy and straight solution for your problem. 
Probably, you will have to implement a custom serializer / deserializer 
for your bean, and use a read-only class for your bean. A common 
approach is to have a base read-only class with a protected Id field and 
the getId() method, and a subclass with the setId() method. Your 
serializer / deserializer will use the subclass, but you will see the 
base class by default. With this approach you can still access the setId 
method through class casting, but you must do it explicitly.

Axis does not provide a public way to specify you want to use a subclass 
for serializing / deserializing a given base class. This is the reason 
why you need to implement your own serializer to do this.

HTH,
Rodrigo Ruiz
pratibha dadegaonkar wrote:

Hi

I have a bean class wherein i have the details like address id, place, 
state and all info.  In the address class, i have get,set methods for 
all fields but the id has only get method.  Id can be set only using 
the constructor.  The end user i.e. web service user can only access 
it.  I have a web service which gives the user the whole address 
object.  The web service user reads it and uses it. He can see the 
address it. The user sends the same address object to another of my 
web service wherein I need to see the id he has sent.  The user sends 
the same object, but i am unable to view the id he has sent in my new 
web service.  Any idea how it works?  And which way i can handle that!

Thanks and regards
Pratibha.