Re: [beanutils] getSimpleProperty

[Craig R. McClanahan]

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Hello,

not sure, whether I'm trapped in a gotcha.
I have a bean with several members and I would like to access them 
   

without 
 

knowing the members, so I thought may be BeanUtils.getSimpleProperty() 
   

is the 
 

right choice.

One member is a Boolean with a setter and an is<memberName> getter (both 
   

have 
 

public access. When I use getSimpleProperty, I receive an exception that 
   

 

reclaims, that <memberName> has no getter method.

I thought, that boolean should have an is<memberName> getter. Do I have 
   

to 
 

provide an additional get<memberName> getter for Booleans if I like to 
   

access 
 

them with BeanUtils, or did I miss some other information?
   

Yes, you need to have get<memberName> for all attributes you want to 
acces.
 

That is not actually true if the data type is actually *boolean* (lower 
case "b").  In that scenario, it's perfectly legal to have the getter 
method start with "is" instead of "get".  The following is a legal 
read-write property:

 public boolean isStarted();
 public void setStarted(boolean started);
The following is not:

 public Boolean isStarted();
 public void setStarted(Boolean started);
Nicolas
 

Craig



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