On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:26, James Strachan wrote: > Hi Jason > > I think that approach sounds great. I'm sure we could plug in a few > different Strategy patterns so that folks can customize the XMLIntrospector > to suit their needs. e.g. some folks like to use mixedCaseNames for bean > properties and <mixed-case-names> style XML elements. > > So go for it. BTW yes you're right, there's some duplicate code I introduced > when implementing the loading of .betwixt files. I'm sure we can refactor > that a bit cleaner to promote code reuse.
Ok, I will give this a first go tomorrow. I would like to dump my mapper and I think we'll be using betwixt heavily in Tambora so I'll get on it. Just wanted to double check the approach: I will attempt to make the behaviour pluggable. > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:17 PM > Subject: [betwixt] Strategy for dealing with addXXX() methods > > > > Hi James, > > > > I was just looking at a way for trying to deal with addXXX() methods in > > a configurable way. I think I might have come up with a way to handle > > it. > > > > While passing through the bean information in > > XMLIntrospector.introspect() when discovering a loop type could we take > > the name, say Hobbies, and apply a strategy to determine its singular > > form? Then store that singular form for later use. > > > > So I could use a plural stemmer strategy that would turn Hobbies into > > Hobby and then in the XMLIntrospectorHelper.defaultAddMethods() the > > addHobby(Hobby hobby) would be matched up with Hobbies. > > > > We could maintain the current behaviour and possibly make these > > strategies stackable so that different attempts can be made. This would > > also allow things like i18n plural stemmers. > > > > I'm still trying to sort out some of the, it looks like there is some > > duplicated code in the XMLIntrospector* classes but I'm not exactly sure > > yet. > > > > But I think this method would work, I'll take any pointers. I think in a > > few more hours I'll be able to give it a whirl if the approach is > > acceptable. > > > > > > -- > > jvz. > > > > Jason van Zyl > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://tambora.zenplex.org > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
