I have no idea if this suits your needs, but JXPath has a HTTP Request expression parser. So you can then 'pick' out of the http request/session... etc whatever you want using an XPath expression. http://commons.apache.org/jxpath/users-guide.html#Servlet_Contexts
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:34 AM, Adam Hardy < [email protected]> wrote: > I have spent a day researching and prototyping with various open-source > options available which facilitate converting an HTTP request's parameters > into an object model of javabeans in a JPA persistence framework. > > I don't want to re-invent the wheel and I was quite confident that > BeanUtils could handle it all, but I have now come across some areas where I > need to code it myself. > > I just wanted to ask BeanUtils developers what the future holds in terms of > my aims, as I'll take that as guidance on how much to code around BeanUtils > and how much to compromise to get what I need, when there's a strong chance > of being able to ditch the code I'll have to write now, to replace it with > ideally just a couple of calls to BeanUtils. > > The main thing I have to work around is the inability of a custom Converter > to know what class of entity beans belong in a list or set. If the Converter > could see the entity bean owning the list (the parent in the parent-child > entity relationship), then in Java 1.5+ it could work out by reflection how > it has been parameterized with generics and which child entity bean belongs > in the list. > > Just in case you were going to point me to OGNL to do this, thanks but I've > been there and have some other issues with that. > > Best regards > Adam > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
