beanlib3x vs. beanlib5x

[Valy Sivec]

I'm currently using version 3.x of this library and was wondering if I should switch to v.5.

Is it too early for this upgrade? Do you plan on maintaining both versions?

Thanks,
Valy Sivec

[Joe D. Velopar]

Definitely worth switching.  The plan is to maintain v5 only in the future.

[sy man]

I have a Product class and Component class.Product can have Components ie a Set.
I would like to retrieve a Product from database, change the ids of the Product and associated Components
and save to database.I am using Hibernate.
When I do a deepCopy I get an error since the Component's id is sitll being copied on a deep copy.
Hence, an attempt to write it to database fails.
This is the pseudocope,any help would be appreciated.

public class ProductDAOTest extends TestCase {
    //Store to DB
    Product product = new Product("My product");
        product.addComponent(new Component("c1"));
        product.addComponent(new Component("c2"));
        long id = productDAO.store(product);
        hibernateTemplate.flush();
        hibernateTemplate.clear();
       
        //Get from db
        Product retrievedProduct = productDAO.get(id);
       
        ////Replicate
    Product prodCopy =productDAO.deepCopy(retrievedProduct);
        
        /*********  FAILS *********************/
        long idCopy = productDAO.store(prodCopy);
    hibernateTemplate.flush();
        hibernateTemplate.clear();
        
}
public class ProductDAO
   {
     public Product deepCopy(Product prodFromDB) {

    Product copy = null;
    try {

    //Override IDs
    HibernatePropertyFilter propertyFilter = new HibernatePropertyFilter() {
            public boolean propagate(String propertyName,Method readerMethod) {
                return !"id".equals(propertyName);
            }
        };

        //Customizing Property handling
        Class<?>[] entityClasses = { Product.class, Component.class };
        Set<Class<?>> entityClassSet = new HashSet<Class<?>>(Arrays.asList(entityClasses));

        //entityclassset,propertiess to be propogate ,veto
        HibernateBeanReplicator replicator = new Hibernate3BeanReplicator(entityClassSet, null, propertyFilter);
        HibernatePropertyFilter propertyFilter2 =replicator.getHibernatePropertyFilter();
        copy = (Product) replicator.deepCopy(prodFromDB);

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    return copy;
    }
}