[beanutils] populate argument type mismatch with Map

[Aaron Bruegl]

I am having a problem now using a Map with BeanUtils.populate. Below is 
the class 'Example' and it the error I get when running it with 
BeanUtils 1.7.0 on Java 6 update 1. I notice when debugging the code the 
'value' to be invoked for the 'setMap' method is a String with value of 
"{}"...which would explain the argument type mismatch, so is this a bug 
in BeanUtils?? I'm not sure what is going on because this just started 
being a problem for me today.

public class Example {
   public Example() {
   }
  
   private Map map = new HashMap();

   public Map getMap() {
       return map;
   }

   public void setMap(Map map) {
       this.map = map;
   }
  
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       Example d = new Example();
      
       Map m = BeanUtils.describe(d);
      
       System.out.println(m);
      
       Example rd = (Example) 
Class.forName(Example.class.getCanonicalName()).newInstance();
       BeanUtils.populate(rd, m);
   }
}

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot invoke 
net.nighthawk.ifd.ads.Example.setMap - argument type mismatch
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtilsBean.invokeMethod(PropertyUtilsBean.java:1778)
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtilsBean.setSimpleProperty(PropertyUtilsBean.java:1759)
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtilsBean.setNestedProperty(PropertyUtilsBean.java:1648)
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtilsBean.setProperty(PropertyUtilsBean.java:1677)
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.setProperty(BeanUtilsBean.java:1022)
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.populate(BeanUtilsBean.java:811)
       at 
org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils.populate(BeanUtils.java:298)
       at net.nighthawk.ifd.ads.Example.main(Example.java:23)

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Aaron Bruegl


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