On 6/1/06, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/1/06, Frank W. Zammetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, June 1, 2006 3:32 pm, Craig McClanahan wrote: > >> Not sure what's going on... since this is the version of > >> setIndexedProperty() without the index, I assume it's going to call > >> setChildren(List) and not be looking for the setter with the index, > >> correct? Thanks! > > > > > > Correct. It's a limitation of BeanUtils that it does not try to use the > > "indexed" setters if they exist. It only deals with the actual List or > > array property as a whole. > > Excellent, thanks again! If you'll permit me one last question? :) > > I have a String[] field "certs" on the bean I'm populating, and I have a > List in the object trying to populate it. I've tried: > > PropertyUtils.setProperty(obj, "certs", ((List)fieldValues).toArray()); > > ...but that gets me a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type > mismatch. How does one populate an array? And specifically, from a List? > I guess the setCerts(String[] vals) method doesn't match up with the > Object[] that toArray() returns... > <snip/> Have you tried: ((List)fieldValues).toArray(new String[0]) which offers control over the runtime type of the returned array, here an array of Strings?
That's part of the equation, but you also have to cast the overall result: (String[]) ((List)fieldValues).toArray(new String[0]) -Rahul Craig
