[CAUSEWAY-2774] Allow members (and their supporting methods) to have non-public visibility. Allow properties/collections to have no getters & setters, or non-public getters and setters. - ASF JIRA

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Rationale here is: encapsulation, "tell not ask".

Thus:

Our definition of a property or collection should be either with a publicly available getter or setter, or a field annotated with @Property or @Collection.
Our definition of an action should be either a publicly available method (if explicit actions config property not set), or a method with any visibility and annotated with @Action.
Our definition of a supporting method is either one with public visibility or with some other visibility but annotated with @MemberSupport.

See this blog https://thorben-janssen.com/access-strategies-in-jpa-and-hibernate/ for reasons as to why field-level annotations are also recommended for ORMs (JPA in this case).

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Allow members (and their supporting methods) to have non-public visibility. Allow properties/collections to have no getters & setters, or non-public getters and setters.