rdonkin 2003/02/17 13:25:33 Modified: beanutils RELEASE-NOTES.txt build.xml Log: Preparations for beanutils 1.6.1 release Revision Changes Path 1.10 +49 -1 jakarta-commons/beanutils/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Index: RELEASE-NOTES.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons/beanutils/RELEASE-NOTES.txt,v retrieving revision 1.9 retrieving revision 1.10 diff -u -r1.9 -r1.10 --- RELEASE-NOTES.txt 15 Jan 2003 21:57:29 -0000 1.9 +++ RELEASE-NOTES.txt 17 Feb 2003 21:25:33 -0000 1.10 @@ -1,5 +1,53 @@ $Id$ + + Commons BeanUtils Package + Version 1.6.1 + Release Notes + +INTRODUCTION: +============ + +Beanutils 1.6.1 is a bug fix release. +The 1.6 release notes can be found at the bottom of this document. + +CHANGES: +======== + +The ConstructorUtils java docs have been improved. + +ConvertingWrapDynaBean +---------------------- + +Use BeanUtils.copyProperty() intead of BeanUtils.setProperty() so that +Object->Object conversions -- via registered Converters, if any, are done. + +BeanUtils +--------- + +Enhance BeanUtils.copyProperty() to deal with about 80% of the use cases for +copying indexed, mapped, and nested properties with type conversions. The +remaining restrictions are documented in the Javadocs for this method. + +This is a partial response to Bugzilla #16525, which documents some +restrictions in the functionality of copyProperty() that leads people +to try setProperty() instead -- which they should not do. + +It is much more conservative than the proposed patch, which (as the reporter +acknowledges) is more appropriate in a minor update (1.7) versus a bugfix +patch (1.6.1) which is currently contemplated. + +BUG REPORTS ADDRESSED: +===================== + +16854 ResultSetDynaClass misspelled ResutSetDynaClass +16525 (partial) BeanUtils.setProperty is over-zealous at converting types + + + + + + Commons BeanUtils Package Version 1.6 Release Notes 1.47 +2 -2 jakarta-commons/beanutils/build.xml Index: build.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-commons/beanutils/build.xml,v retrieving revision 1.46 retrieving revision 1.47 diff -u -r1.46 -r1.47 --- build.xml 25 Jan 2003 21:22:37 -0000 1.46 +++ build.xml 17 Feb 2003 21:25:33 -0000 1.47 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ <property name="component.title" value="Bean Introspection Utilities"/> <!-- The current version number of this component --> - <property name="component.version" value="1.7-dev"/> + <property name="component.version" value="1.6.1RC"/> <!-- The base directory for compilation targets --> <property name="build.home" value="target"/>
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