enable to put aanotation on private field

my entity class is

package com.axelor.app.db;

import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.Access;
import javax.persistence.AccessType;
import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.SequenceGenerator;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;

@Entity
@Table(name = "contact")
public class Contact {

	private Long id;

	private String firstName;

	private String lastName;

	private String email;

	private String phone;
	
	private Address mainAddress;
	
	private Address shipAddress;

	private List<Address> addresses;

	public Contact() {
	}

	public Contact(String firstName, String lastName) {
		this.firstName = firstName;
		this.lastName = lastName;
	}

	@Id
	@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "CONTACT_SEQ")
	@SequenceGenerator(name = "CONTACT_SEQ", sequenceName = "CONTACT_SEQ", allocationSize = 1)
	public Long getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(Long id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	public String getFirstName() {
		return firstName;
	}

	public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
		this.firstName = firstName;
	}

	public String getLastName() {
		return lastName;
	}

	public void setLastName(String lastName) {
		this.lastName = lastName;
	}

	public String getEmail() {
		return email;
	}

	public void setEmail(String email) {
		this.email = email;
	}

	public String getPhone() {
		return phone;
	}

	public void setPhone(String phone) {
		this.phone = phone;
	}

	@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE })
	public Address getMainAddress() {
		return mainAddress;
	}
	
	public void setMainAddress(Address mainAddress) {
		this.mainAddress = mainAddress;
	}
	
	@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, cascade = { CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE })
	public Address getShipAddress() {
		return shipAddress;
	}

	public void setShipAddress(Address shipAddress) {
		this.shipAddress = shipAddress;
	}
	@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "contact", cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true)
	public List<Address> getAddresses() {
		return addresses;
	}

	public void setAddresses(List<Address> addresses) {
		this.addresses = addresses;
	}

}

it is working fine.
but i want annotation put on private field so it is possible ??

[clayreimann]

Why do you want to annotate a private field?

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[aklish]

This is similar to issue #644.

It is not possible today - but a high priority item. I suspect we'll fix in the next month or so.

[aklish]

First pass - we'll probably end up following JPA 1.0 conventions where the @Id annotation determines whether the entire entity should use field accessors or property accessors.

We could also search for the @Access annotation and decide on a field by field basis. However, this will be a bit more work - and I'm not convinced it was a useful JPA feature.

This means Elide will only look at fields or only look at properties for any given entity (all determined by where the @Id annotation lives.

Thoughts on this? @wcekan @tbo-axelor @clayreimann @DennisMcWherter

[DennisMcWherter]

That sounds like a reasonable way to do this to me. It will force some consistency on how your models are annotated which may make them easier to read rather than supporting a mixed case.

That said, is there much extra work to support a mixed approach? The defaulting behavior could be with @Id and we could support @Access.

I like your original suggestion (I personally think it's better style to use one or the other), but you could imagine a situation where the model has been annotated with field-level annotations and then there comes a need for a single getter-based annotation. In this case, the user would have to reannotate the model with getters for this to work rather than just adding an @Access annotation.

Just something to consider. If it's not significantly more work, it may be nicer to consider how code may evolve.

[aklish]

If we support a mix of properties and fields - we'll need to disambiguate conflicts (where the same attribute is both a property and field). That feels like a refactor of the EntityBinding to me. I'm not opposed to it being done if someone feels compelled. However, the critical part of this to me seems like the need to support field level access (as this is a very common pattern). My guess is that mixed properties and fields is not a common case.

[DennisMcWherter]

I am certainly not against enabling wholesale one or the other as a first pass. Maybe we proceed with this solution (since it should be fairly straightforward) and can prioritize the work for mixed tasks if we find other users needing it.

thank u @aklish and @DennisMcWherter

fix in 4.2.7 right.
so when you release 4.2.7 ??

[aklish]

Probably as soon as #690 #695 and #697 are merged to master.

hii @aklish ,
what about #691 issue
OneToMany or ManyToOne annotation also put on private field??

[aklish]

@tbo-axelor It should work. I should probably add some tests for this.