Sorry JVZ, I was too busy looking into the problem to suggest a
workaround. I have used the FactoryCreateRule that Robert created to
get around this, and it works superbly. The BeanInfo is another trick
that I didn't know about, I am glad I do now ;-)
So now you have three choices while we decide what to do with the design
;-)
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [digester] possible show stopper
>
>
> On 8/20/01 3:49 PM, "robert burrell donkin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > <Attachment missing>On Monday, August 20, 2001, at 07:31
> PM, Jason van Zyl
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/20/01 2:24 PM, "robert burrell donkin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Monday, August 20, 2001, at 06:37 PM, Craig R.
> McClanahan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, robert burrell donkin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>>>> the good thing is that digester is extensible and one
> easy way round
> >>>>> this
> >>>>> problem would be to create a rule that allowed a property with a
> >>>>> different
> >>>>> name (from the attribute) to be set. if this is what
> you need, i can
> >>>>> easy
> >>>>> and quickly produce a new rule to do just this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Actually, you don't even need a new rule -- just a
> BeanInfo class for
> >>>> your
> >>>> bean that does the appropriate mapping. BeanUtils (which is used
> >>>> underneath) follows standard Java introspection
> mechanisms - it does not
> >>>> assume that the setter for method foo is always named setFoo().
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> i assumed that jason (hopefully he'll will correct me if
> i'm wrong) was
> >>> trying to set - say - the 'rubbish' property from the
> 'trash' attribute.
> >>> (this is reasonably common for xml->object mapping since
> xml-attributes
> >>> and java method names have different naming rules.)
> >>
> >> Yes, you've got it right :-) In my case I am trying to use
> the 'cvsdir'
> >> property with the 'dir' attribute, and the 'hostprefix'
> property with the
> >> 'host-prefix' attribute. There are a couple others, these
> eventually might
> >> map better but I am trying to get my java version of gump
> working without
> >> altering the gump descriptors as they are in there current form.
> >>
> >> I'm interested in getting to know the digester more, but
> I'd settle for
> >> rule
> >> that did the trick right now :-)
> >
> > here's a rule that should do what you need.
> > you pass in the name of the xml-attribute and the bean name into the
> > constructor.
> > you'll need to repackage it to live somewhere local.
>
> Thanks! Now I have another option :-)
>
> > - robert
> >
> > <Attachment missing>
>
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>
> jvz.
>
> Jason van Zyl
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