Re: [Beanutils] MethodUtils: private getMatchingAccessibleMethod()

[robert burrell donkin]

On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Arnd Kohrs wrote:

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Robert> if you want it public, why not roll your own version from
Robert> the source?

Overhead of duplication!

I don't understand why a method which invokes a loosely specified method is
public, but a method which just tells me if a loosely specified method
exists needs to be private?

you've hit on nail on the head :)

the methodutils API is poor and needs to be replaced by something more tightly specified. some work has been done on a new version of methodutils in the lang component but it's still under development.

May be my reasoning has some merit, and
MethodUtils.getMatchingAccessibleMethod() can be changed to public.  If
this is not possible then maybe invokeMethod(...) should be deprecated.

i hope that the version of methodutils in beanutils will be deprecated as soon as the improved API taking shape in lang is finished. some other people may feel differently.

probably i'll see what other people think about changing MethodUtils.getMatchingAccessibleMethod() to public for the next release.

- robert


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