Hi Oliver, AFAIK beanutils is not restricted to pure JavaBeans. The project website just says that the component provides simple wrappers around the java refelct and introspect API. So I would say, that the functionality you propsed would fit nicely into BU (maybe the scope has changed and now the name is a bit misleading?!).
Regarding your question where to implement it: I did some work on beanutils 2, but there are several outstanding issues on JIRA that block me from providing more patches. So development is a bit stuck until someone can step in and review those issues and the patches attached to them. After that, there are a some points to address before BU2 can be promoted to proper and eventually be released [1]. So if you need that functionality quickly, it would probably be easier to add it to BU1 and push out a release. Regards, Benedikt [1] http://markmail.org/thread/5zgoyid5ld7otwsv 2012/12/5 Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> > Hi all, > > in [configuration] [beanutils] is used to initialize properties of Java > objects defined in configuration files. This works fine as long as the > objects conform to the Java Beans specification. > > Now I would like to initialize other objects, too, which implement a > fluent interface as follows: > > class Param { > public Param setFoo(String value) { > ... > } > } > > Such properties are not detected by [beanutils] with its standard > mechanism. As a work-around, I currently provide specific BeanInfo classes > for the affected Java objects I want to process. They use a mechanism which > scans a class's methods and adds property descriptors for set methods even > if they have a non-void return type. > > Because fluent APIs like that are becoming more and more popular I wonder > whether it would be a good extension for [beanutils] to be more flexible > when searching for property access methods. I guess, ultimately, I am > asking for an extension point where a custom introspection mechanism can be > plugged in so that client code is free to provide additional property > descriptors for its data objects. > > Would there be interest to add such a feature to [beanutils]? For version > 1.x or 2.0? > Oliver > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > dev-unsubscribe@commons.**apache.org<dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
