On Thu, 16 May 2002, James Strachan wrote:
> Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:00:19 +0100
> From: James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jakarta Commons Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [beanutils] making BeanUtils.setProperty() public
>
> For some reason the very useful BeanUtils.setProperty(bean, property, value)
> method is private. Does anyone have any objections to making it public?
>
It was originally private because I just factored out a bunch of code that
was in two places in BeanUtils.populate(). I guess it is sorta useful on
its own, because it does the automatic conversions for you. Go for it.
> Creating a Map and filling it with one property/value pair so that
> BeanUtils.populate() can be called seems a tad inefficient if someone only
> wants to set one property, using the same conversion rules as
> BeanUtils.populate().
>
> James
Craig
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