On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Laird J. Nelson wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 19:23:04 -0500 > From: Laird J. Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BeanUtils] Javabean diff? > > Hi; I had written to the -user list about this subject a couple of days ago, > and Henri Yandell expressed some interest, so I'll carry the nascent thread > over here. > > I have a weird requirement at my real job related to Java bean graphs. For > reasons that owe much more to bad web services design than anything else, I > find I need to take two Java bean graphs--one which started out as a clone > of the other--and extract in some fashion only those paths that reflect how > the second graph differs from the first. Think of the diff program applied > to Java beans: the output, or a derivative of that output, would describe > only what modifications would need to be made to the first graph to make it > become the second graph. > > I figured that this would make an interesting add-on to BeanUtils. There > also seem to be some JXPath-ish bits in here. Is there interest in the > BeanUtils/commons community for such a facility? > I'd be interested in exploring such an idea in beanutils -- not that have a direct need, but it is intriguing. Of course, we'd want to make sure that we support DynaBean:DynaBean comparisons as well, and maybe even JavaBean:DynaBean comparisons that have the same sets of properties. > Cheers, > Laird Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
