Apache digester addSetProperty method is unclear and probably wrong.
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                 Key: DIGESTER-142
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIGESTER-142
             Project: Commons Digester
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.1
         Environment: linux, 64 bits
            Reporter: i30817
            Priority: Minor


The addSetProperty method call:
            Digester d = new Digester();
            d.push(this);
            d.addObjectCreate("rdf:RDF/pgterms:etext", Book.class);
            d.addSetProperty("rdf:RDF/pgterms:etext", "rdf:ID", "setId");
 OR
            d.addSetProperty("rdf:RDF/pgterms:etext", "rdf:ID", "id");


on a class Book with the method public void setId(String)

running on this xml (simplified and not tested the simplification):
<rdf:RDF>
<pgterms:etext rdf:ID="etext10452">
  <dc:publisher>&pg;</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title rdf:parseType="Literal">Peter's Mother</dc:title>
  <dc:creator rdf:parseType="Literal">De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs., 
1866-1945</dc:creator>
  <pgterms:friendlytitle rdf:parseType="Literal">Peter's Mother by Mrs. Henry 
De La Pasture</pgterms:friendlytitle>
  
<dc:language><dcterms:ISO639-2><rdf:value>en</rdf:value></dcterms:ISO639-2></dc:language>
  
<dc:created><dcterms:W3CDTF><rdf:value>2003-12-01</rdf:value></dcterms:W3CDTF></dc:created>
  <dc:rights rdf:resource="&lic;" />
</pgterms:etext>
</rdf:RDF>

gives this exception:
Nov 8, 2010 2:42:12 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester startElement
SEVERE: Begin event threw exception
java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: Bean has no property named etext10452
        at 
org.apache.commons.digester.SetPropertyRule.begin(SetPropertyRule.java:154)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:177)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1583)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:504)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:770)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1340)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2732)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:625)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:488)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:812)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:741)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:123)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1208)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:525)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1916)
...(my code the rest).


To work around it use instead:
d.addSetProperties("rdf:RDF/pgterms:etext", "rdf:ID", "id");


Doesn't make much sense to me. Also the confusion between a javadoc bean 
property and a xml one is very, very misleading on the javadoc.

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