I explained in another reply, but it's worth replying directly here...
The use case is that I'm dynamically creating instances of myBean based
on a configuration file... this is part of the DependencyFilter I added
to Jave Web Parts in the past few days. It already handles simple
properties, Maps and Lists with no problem, but arrays seem a bit
trickier...
The thing that is making it trickier, unless I'm missing something
simple (which is entirely possible!) is that say I read in the config
file and find that there are 10 items to be added to a given array field
in byBean... I don't want myBean to have to know before-hand how big the
array will be, nor do I want to have to arbitrarily set some high
value. So, I need to be able to dynamically create the array from
OUTSIDE myBean based on the number of items found in the config file.
Since myArray is private in myBean as per my example, I can't simply
access the field directly as I showed in the example. Hence my question :)
Hope that makes some sense...
Frank
Niall Pemberton wrote:
LazyDynaBean does this, but I guess you don't want DynaBeans.
Whats the circumstance of you wanting to do this dynamically - rather than
just initializing it as you are in your example?
Niall
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From: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:55 PM
I kind of assume this isn't possible based on what I've seen, but figured
I'd ask none the less...
Is it possible with BeanUtils (or otherwise) to create a new array as a
member of a bean? What I mean is, if I have this bean:
class myBean {
private String[] myArray;
}
Can I do the equivalent of this:
class mainClass {
myBean b = new myBean();
b.myArray = new String[5];
}
Obviously that's not valid, but pretend it would work, I need to write
*real* code that *will* work to do the equivalent of that. I haven't seen
anything in BeanUtils that would do it, hoping I'm missing something.
Thanks!
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Omnytex Technologies
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