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+/*
+ * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
+ *
+ * License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.
+ * See the lgpl.txt file in the root directory or <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>.
+ */
+package org.hibernate.test.annotations.access;
+
+import javax.persistence.Entity;
+import javax.persistence.Id;
+
+import org.hibernate.annotations.AttributeAccessor;
+import org.hibernate.boot.Metadata;
+import org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources;
+import org.hibernate.cfg.Environment;
+import org.hibernate.mapping.Property;
+import org.hibernate.property.access.internal.PropertyAccessStrategyBasicImpl;
+import org.hibernate.property.access.spi.PropertyAccess;
+import org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistry;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.hibernate.testing.ServiceRegistryBuilder;
+import org.hibernate.testing.TestForIssue;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * @author Chris Cranford
+ */
+@TestForIssue(jiraKey = "HHH-12062")
+public class AttributeAccessorTest {
+	private ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry;
+
+	@Before
+	public void setUp() {
+		serviceRegistry = ServiceRegistryBuilder.buildServiceRegistry( Environment.getProperties() );
+	}
+
+	@After
+	public void cleanUp() {
+		if ( serviceRegistry != null ) {
+			ServiceRegistryBuilder.destroy( serviceRegistry );
+			serviceRegistry = null;
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testAttributeAccessorConfiguration() {
+		final Metadata metadata = new MetadataSources( serviceRegistry )
+				.addAnnotatedClass( Foo.class )
+				.buildMetadata();
+
+		final Property property = metadata.getEntityBinding( Foo.class.getName() ).getProperty( "name" );
+		assertEquals( BasicAttributeAccessor.class.getName(), property.getPropertyAccessorName() );
+	}
+
+	@Entity(name = "Foo")
+	public static class Foo {
+		private Integer id;
+		private String name;
+
+		public Foo() {
+
+		}
+
+		public Foo(Integer id) {
+			this.id = id;
+		}
+
+		public Foo(Integer id, String name) {
+			this.id = id;
+			this.name = name;
+		}
+
+		@Id
+		public Integer getId() {
+			return id;
+		}
+
+		public void setId(Integer id) {
+			this.id = id;
+		}
+
+		@AttributeAccessor( "org.hibernate.test.annotations.access.AttributeAccessorTest$BasicAttributeAccessor" )
+		public String getName() {
+			return name;
+		}
+
+		public void setName(String name) {
+			this.name = name;
+		}
+	}
+
+	public static class BasicAttributeAccessor extends PropertyAccessStrategyBasicImpl {
+		@Override
+		public PropertyAccess buildPropertyAccess(Class containerJavaType, String propertyName) {
+			return super.buildPropertyAccess( containerJavaType, propertyName );
+		}
+	}
+}