org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester
Class MappedPropertyRule

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.commons.digester.Rule
      org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester.RuleSupport
          org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester.MappedPropertyRule

Direct Known Subclasses:

ElementRule, TextRule

public abstract class MappedPropertyRule
extends RuleSupport

Factors out common code used by Betwixt rules that access bean properties. Maybe a lot of this should be moved into BeanUtils.

Since:

0.5

Author:

Robert Burrell Donkin

Field Summary

private java.lang.ClassLoader	classLoader Classloader used to load classes by name
private static org.apache.commons.logging.Log	log Logger

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.digester.Rule

digester, namespaceURI

Constructor Summary

MappedPropertyRule()
Base constructor

Method Summary

protected java.beans.PropertyDescriptor	getPropertyDescriptor(java.lang.Class beanClass, java.lang.String propertyName) Returns the property descriptor for the class and property name.
protected java.lang.Class	getPropertyType(java.lang.String propertyClassName, java.lang.Class beanClass, java.lang.String propertyName) Gets the type of a property

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.betwixt.digester.RuleSupport

getBeanClass, getProcessedPropertyNameSet, getXMLInfoDigester, getXMLIntrospector

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.digester.Rule

begin, begin, body, body, end, end, finish, getDigester, getNamespaceURI, setDigester, setNamespaceURI

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

log

private static final org.apache.commons.logging.Log log

Logger

classLoader

private java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader

Classloader used to load classes by name

Constructor Detail

MappedPropertyRule

public MappedPropertyRule()

Base constructor

Method Detail

getPropertyDescriptor

protected java.beans.PropertyDescriptor getPropertyDescriptor(java.lang.Class beanClass,
                                                              java.lang.String propertyName)

Returns the property descriptor for the class and property name. Note that some caching could be used to improve performance of this method. Or this method could be added to PropertyUtils.

Parameters:

beanClass - descriptor for property in this class

propertyName - descriptor for property with this name

Returns:

property descriptor for the named property in the given class

getPropertyType

protected java.lang.Class getPropertyType(java.lang.String propertyClassName,
                                          java.lang.Class beanClass,
                                          java.lang.String propertyName)

Gets the type of a property

Parameters:

propertyClassName - class name for property type (may be null)

beanClass - class that has property

propertyName - the name of the property whose type is to be determined

Returns:

property type