org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester

Class MappedPropertyRule

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.digester.Rule

org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester.RuleSupport

org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester.MappedPropertyRule

Direct Known Subclasses:

ElementRule, TextRule

public abstract class MappedPropertyRule
extends RuleSupport

Factors out common code used by Betwixt rules that access bean properties. Maybe a lot of this should be moved into BeanUtils.

Since:

0.5

Author:

Robert Burrell Donkin

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.digester.Rule

digester, namespaceURI

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MappedPropertyRule() Base constructor

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected PropertyDescriptor	getPropertyDescriptor(Class beanClass, String propertyName) Returns the property descriptor for the class and property name.
protected Class	getPropertyType(String propertyClassName, Class beanClass, String propertyName) Gets the type of a property

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester.RuleSupport

getBeanClass, getProcessedPropertyNameSet, getXMLInfoDigester, getXMLIntrospector, loadClass

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.digester.Rule

begin, begin, body, body, end, end, finish, getDigester, getNamespaceURI, setDigester, setNamespaceURI

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MappedPropertyRule

public MappedPropertyRule()

Base constructor

Method Detail

getPropertyDescriptor

protected PropertyDescriptor getPropertyDescriptor(Class beanClass,
                                       String propertyName)

Returns the property descriptor for the class and property name. Note that some caching could be used to improve performance of this method. Or this method could be added to PropertyUtils.

Parameters:

beanClass - descriptor for property in this class

propertyName - descriptor for property with this name

Returns:

property descriptor for the named property in the given class

getPropertyType

protected Class getPropertyType(String propertyClassName,
                    Class beanClass,
                    String propertyName)

Gets the type of a property

Parameters:

propertyClassName - class name for property type (may be null)

beanClass - class that has property

propertyName - the name of the property whose type is to be determined

Returns:

property type