[Biojava-l] Getting features with the same Location

[Hilmar Lapp]

Understood. You could still make it a read-only property though, no?  
Would there be dangers with that too?

	-hilmar

On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Richard Holland wrote:

> The rationale was to prevent it being changed by the programmer,  
> because
> if that happens then Hibernate gets seriously confused (it relies on  
> the
> PKs remaining constant whilst an object is in memory).
>
> Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>>
>> On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Richard Holland wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, the bioentry_id is private.
>>
>>
>> What's the rationale for that? It's the primary key; why should it be
>> forbidden to view it, even for derived classes?
>>
>> (For a Bioperl-db persistent object, the primary key is public and
>> always accessible as $pobj->primary_key(). It can even be changed  
>> by the
>> programmer, though of course you should know what you're doing when  
>> you
>> decide to do that.)
>>
>>    -hilmar
>
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> Richard Holland, BSc MBCS
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