beanutils adds quite a few powerful features which (seems to me to) justify these dependencies.
there are some good reasons why it might be useful to abstract the actual population from the mechanism used to perform the population. i'm not sure whether the best way to do this would be through delegation to a strategy interface or through inheritance. i'd be interested to here other people's views on this.
i don't seem to get as much coding time as i'd like these days so i probably won't get round to coding this any time soon but patches (including test cases ;) would be gratefully received.
- robert
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Ricky Panaglucci wrote:
simon, BeanUtils does the actual setting of properties. there are many other "JavaSpec conforming" utilities.
(i use castor for introspection and generating relevant information)
you are right, i can always use new rules...
i still feel the dependency on BeanUtils in the populate() and setProperty() cases is too much - while
ok in CallMethodRule etc
ricardo
--- Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 11:27, Ricky Panaglucci wrote:---------------------------------------------------------------------hello,
is it by design, that SetPropertyRule and SetPropertiesRule use BeanUtils.populate()? it would be usefull to use other binders as well.
Well, the term "property" in the name of these rules is intended to refer to the definition of a JavaBean property as per the official JavaBean specification.
The BeanUtils library implements that specification, so there doesn't seem to be much need for allowing the user to configure alternate implementations.
If you do wish to map xml attributes to class methods in a way other than the JavaBean spec defines, you can always create your own rule, like SetRicardoPropertyRule(...) which uses some other algorithm for determining which method to invoke on an object given an xml attribute or element name.
What "other binder" do you have in mind?
Regards,
Simon
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