[AXIS2-5649] Allow the access specifier of the mutators to be configurable in the axis2 generated artifact classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.2
• Component/s: adb, codegen
• Labels: axis2 axis2_1.6.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sunil Veera
• Created: 16/May/14 19:22
• Updated: 02/Jul/16 15:50
• Resolved: 02/Jul/16 15:50

Description

Right now, all the getters and setters getX and setX that operate on the instance variables localX are public in both the generated request and response classes.

We'd like the access of the setters in the response objects at least to be private, preferably made configurable, so the users can specify their preferences via a new configuration parameter, say 'setterAccess' in the calling maven plugin. This would help maintain the immutability of the generated service response objects.

Without this, we resort to hoping that the clients of these generated response classes won't modify the objects in a way we don't want them to.

Typically, here's how a setter template looks in all of the *Template.xsl files in the axis2-adb-codegen:

/**
* Auto generated setter method
* Overridden from <xsl:value-of select="$restriction"/>
*
* @param param <xsl:value-of select="$javaName"/>
* @throws RuntimeException
*/
private void set<xsl:value-of select="$javaName"/>(<xsl:value-of select="$propertyType"/> param){
      throw new java.lang.RuntimeException();
}

We'd like the access specifier of these setters to be made configurable like many other attributes are.