Thanks for the info Tim.
Gregg
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Tim Fennell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, actually this works reasonably well already in 1.5, will work
> better in 1.5.1 and beyond that the only problem is actually with
> related technologies.
>
> When I say works, I mean you should be able to just have:
> public Date birthday;
>
> and Stripes will work with the public property instead of requiring
> getters and setters.
>
> There's an existing bug in 1.5 whereby Stripes won't discover
> validation metadata on a public property - it required a method to be
> present to find the property, and would then look on the field. But
> Freddy has fixed this in the trunk and on the branch, so in 1.5.1
> you'll be able to do just this.
>
> The only problem remaining, as Chris says, is that JSP EL requires the
> accessors, so if you want to access things in EL you'll still need
> getter methods. However, FreeMarker can be made to read public
> properties.....
>
> -t
>
> On Oct 27, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Chris Herron wrote:
>
> > Is the property syntax definitely out of consideration for Java 7?
> > Last I heard, it was still on the table.
> > JSP EL requires reflection. If Stripes introduces its own @Property
> > annotation I think it would require bytecode manipulation in order to
> > make everything work.
> >
> > Properties don't bother me much as long as someone isn't pedantically
> > demanding them to be Javadocced. I rely on my IDE to generate getters
> > & setters and I collapse & hide them all out of the way at the bottom
> > of the class.
> >
> > Chris.
> >
> > On Oct 27, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Gregg Bolinger wrote:
> >
> >> Before I ask my question let me first say that I have no problems
> >> with getter/setter methods from a practical POV. At one time Sun
> >> was going to introduce an @Property annotation for beans but it
> >> didn't make it in. Some frameworks/languages (scala for example) do
> >> offer this to avoid the need to getters/setters. In groovy getters
> >> and setters are wired up at runtime. While I try to keep my
> >> controllers as lean as possible getter/setter clutter tends to mount.
> >>
> >> This would probably be something more for Stripes 1.6 but I think it
> >> would be nice if Stripes could get and set properties based on an
> >> @Property annotation rather than requiring getters and setters. I'm
> >> not sure what "rules" might be broken through reflection for this to
> >> work but it sure would clean up the action beans, I think. Any
> >> opinions?
> >>
> >> Gregg
> >>
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