On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:46 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> as it seems, the PropertyUtils.copyProperties() as well as
> BeanUtils.copyProperties() only do a copy on "class-level".
> As I would like to reuse my copy-methods for an inherited
> class-structure I would like to ask if there is also a chance to do a
> "full"-object copy for inherited classes for all properties.
>
> ==========================================
> Example:
>
> public class Class1 {
> private String attribute1;
> }
>
> public class Class2 extends Class1 {
> private String attribute2;
> }
>
> public class Business {
>
> public static copy(Class1 source, Class1 dest) {
> PropertyUtils.copyProperties(source, dest)
> }
> }
> ==========================================
>
> If I call Business.copy() with 2 instances of Class1, attribute1 is
> perfectly copied. But if I call the same method with 2 instances of
> Class2, only attribute1 is copied although I would also like to copy
> attribute2 as well. Any chance to do that?
It does do this - but looks like you have the parameters the wrong way
round, try
PropertyUtils.copyProperties(dest, source)
> Furthermore I realized that enumerations are not copied, too. Is there a
> chance to copy the bean-instance including enumerations?
BeanUtils doesn't support JDK 1.5 features and it doesn't look very
likely it will do so since its pretty much in maintenance mode.
Niall
> Thanks for your help
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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