I'm developing functionality that can operate on concrete data beans returned via Hibernate, or DynaBeans returned by using Jakarta Commons/BeanUtils' RowSetDynaClass (which wraps a JDBC result set). RowSetDynaClass by default forces all bean property names to lower case, and I need to convert all my concrete beans from Hibernate to DynaBeans using WrapDynaBean. The default lower casing by RowSetDynaClass seems like a good idea, however I may not know ahead of time how the property names of the concrete beans will be cased; due to Hibernate configuration, they need not be cased identically to their corresponding table column names.
Is there built in functionality for forcing property names to lower case using BeanUtils? I can't find it documented other than for RowSetDynaClass. In lieu of something built in to BeanUtils, can anybody suggest the best way to acheive this myself? The above is verbatim from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1369915/need-easy-way-to-force-all-dynabean-property-names-to-lower-case you can answer there too if you want to accrue some reputation. I've investigated this a bit more and it looks like I might be able to use getMap() and then deal with the case of the string keys. Doesn't seem especially elegant though but I've only scratched the surface of the API. Is extending WrapDynaBean class and overriding introspect() a possibility? Finally, might a patch be in order to add this functionality to WrapDynaBean/Class? It seems like it could be more useful/inter-operable if it behaved in a similar way to RowSetDynaClass, with an option (not the default though) for forcing property names to lower case. Thanks in advance -- "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." -- Samuel Johnson
