setter for a boolean variable named like isActive

Question

I have a property called isActive in my pojo class. When I generated the accessors for this property using Eclipse IDE, it generates following getters and setters

Getter : isActive()
Setter : setActive()

However, when I try to write this property using ibatis framework by mentioning property name as "isActive" , it cribs about not able to find any WRITEABLE propery named 'isActive'. The problem I think lies with not able to deduce the correct property name by inferring setter as setIsActive().

What is the best way to go about this without changing the property name or getter ?

Answer 1

primitive boolean field getters are created as isFieldName. So in Ibatis you should give the property name as active not isActive

Answer 2

The pojo naming convention expects boolean types called xxx to have methods isXxx and setXxx.

In your case your pojo should look like;

public class MyPojo
{
  private boolean active;

  public boolean isActive()
  {
    return active;
  }

  public void setActive(boolean active)
  {
    this.active = active;
  }
}

You can demonstrate this yourself by creating a class in your IDE and defining the private boolean active variable, and then getting the IDE to generate getters and setters.