On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Matt Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > > --- On Tue, 2/24/09, Adam Hardy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Adam Hardy <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [beanutils] converting HTTP params into an arbitrary object >> model >> To: "Commons Users List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 3:19 AM >> Matt Benson on 23/02/09 16:23, >> wrote: >> --- On Sat, 2/21/09, Adam Hardy 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. >> >> >> > >> > You may want to check out Morph @ http://morph.sourceforge.net . OOTB, it >> > can >> "reflect" ServletRequest parameters as bean properties and >> do a straight copy, as long as the servlet API is found on >> the classpath. >> >> I had a look at morph (following the link from the >> beanutils wiki) but their >> website didn't really enlighten me and what I did find >> didn't look very helpful, >> so I made a management decision not to pursue it. >> >> The problem is that there are that many little details to >> check for, e.g. can it handle sets, can it deduce the >> javabean items on generics, can it handle indexed lists of >> ".0, .1, .2" notation etc >> > > Morph is not generics-enabled; it can handle most of your basic non-generic > constructs (e.g. Sets) right out of the box and just about anything else you > can throw at it if you want to implement its API here and there for custom > transformations, and while I am 100% sure it can handle [n] index notation I > am about 90% sure it also handles indices as property names as you have > described (.n)--if not, that is pluggable. But this isn't the Morph list > and, as you said, you made a management decision not to pursue it. As a > Morph team member I will take your "documentation didn't look very helpful" > criticism under advisement as well. >
Yeah its out-of-date http://tinyurl.com/dhsupb Niall > Regards, > Matt > >> Regards >> Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
