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Subject: Re: [beanutils] BeanUtils.copyProperties support for non-simple
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doh! the map can be passed straight into populate. i don't know why i 
missed this before...

- robert

On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 04:39 PM, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, robert burrell donkin wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 20:07:09 +0000
>> From: robert burrell donkin <robertburrelldonkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
>> Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-
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>> To: Jakarta Commons Developers <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
>> Subject: [beanutils] BeanUtils.copyProperties support for non-simple
>>     properties...?
>>
>> the following bug http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14470
>> boils down to copyProperty calling setSimpleProperty rather than
>> setProperty. since this is (just) in the java docs, i'm reluctant to
>> change this in case there's a good reason why it was written like this.
>>
>> does anyone know a reason why it was done like this?
>>
>
> The original intent was to perform a "shallow copy" of the properties in
> an origin bean to a destination bean, in a manner reminiscent of what the
> java.lang.Object.clone() method is supposed to do.
>
> The issue of non-simple properties only matters for a Map as the source
> (and, if we add it, a Map as the destination).  This is one of the places
> I'm not clear what makes the most sense in our seeming quest to treat Maps
> like beans for some purposes.
>
> Maybe the best thing to do would be to separate out the copy-from-map
> operation into a separate method that complements describe()?  Such a
> method could easily support non-simple properties -- it would be a generic
> way to load properties into an entire existing tree.
>
>> (if it right, i'll improve the documentation and mark the bug as WONTFIX.
>> )
>>
>> - robert
>>
>
> Craig
>
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