How to make an Entity read-only?

Question

What is the proper way to make an Entity read-only with JPA ? I wish my database table to never be modified at all programmatically.

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Answer 1

If you are using spring-data or are otherwise using the Repository pattern, don't include any save / update / create / insert / etc methods in the Repository for that particular entity. This can be generalized by having a base class / interface for readonly entities, and an updatable one that extends the readonly one for updatable entities. As other posters have pointed out, the setters may also be made non-public to avoid developers accidentally setting values that they are then unable to save.