hi Niall
(apologies for my tardiness in replying.)
infrastructure were fiddling around with nagoya a short while ago and i think some mail from bugzilla may have been lost for a while.
thanks for taking the trouble to write recommending the patches - they look promising. the main problem is that though beanutils is on my agenda (it's the next release i'm cutting after jaxme) there's a ton of work i need to do on the release branch.
there is a wiki page on etiquette (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-commons/JakartaCommonsEtiquette) but (unless anyone else has an objection) i'd be happy for you to have beanutils karma. (just remember to add yourself to the status file before committing anything.) beanutils is very short staffed (so any help would be gratefully accepted) but is very widely used (so there are a number of things that need to be borne in mind when changing existing code). it's probably best to discuss changes before diving in.
- robert
On 2 Jul 2004, at 16:27, Niall Pemberton wrote:
I created a bugzilla enhacement request (with code) Bug [29879] to add
LazyDynaBean and LazyDynaClass to beanutils - I don't know if the problem is
my end but I didn't see the usual emails arrive on this list so I thought I
would post this as well.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29879
I developed "Lazy" implementations of DynaBean and DynaClass and they have
been available for people to download from my web site for a while - would
there be any interest in having them in beanutils?
LazyDynaClass is an implementation of the MutableDynaClass interface that
allows the properties of a DynaClass to be changed.
LazyDynaBean must be used in conjunction with a MutableDynaClass and
automatically adds properties when its set() methods are called if the
property doesn't exist. The versions available on my web site only dealt
with "simple" properties, but I now have a version that caters for indexed
and mapped properties as well.
This version automatically instantiates a Map when a mapped property is set
that doesn't exist.
It also instantiates either a List or Array when an indexed property is set
that doesn't exist and automatically "grows" the List or Array so that it is
big enough to cater for the index being set.
Quite a few people seem to be using them now and I've had good feedback.
I'm not sure of the Commons "etiquette" here - I was recently voted a
Commons committer for the Validation project - but I guess I don't have
karma for beanutils and even if I have, houldn't just plough in adding stuff
without the existing Beanutils commiters say so?
Niall
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