Stefan Bodewig wrote: > > James Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > 2. A Task must identify the name of all modifiable properties. > > As you point out, this is already possible via "all methods following > our naming convention represent attributes/nested elements" - and > there even are support methods in IntrospectionHelper to aid external > tools. > > But sometimes one might pick up false positives (setUserProperty in > Property being something that shouldn't lead to an attribute for > example). So in principle I agree. >
One option to consider here is the way that JavaBeans deal with the "false positives" issue. If you also include a BeanInfo class, you can customize the set of properties that is made visible (and even adapt to different method names). The introspector knows how to deal with this for you, so it might be pretty cheap to implement. Craig McClanahan
