Re: [Hibernate-devel] Property naming

[Gavin_King/Cirrus%<CI...@ci...>]

From the JavaBeans spec:

>8.8 Capitalization of inferred names.
>When we use design patterns to infer a property or event name, we need to
decide what rules to follow for capitalizing the inferred name. If we
extract the name from the middle of a normal mixedCase style Java name then
the name will, by default, begin with a capital letter.
>Java programmers are accustomed to having normal identifiers start with
lower case letters. Vigorous reviewer input has convinced us that we should
follow this same conventional rule for property and event names.

>JavaBeans Introspection
>Thus when we extract a property or event name from the middle of an
existing Java name, we normally convert the first character to lower case.
However to support the occasional use of all upper-case names, we check if
the first two characters of the name are both upper case and if so leave it
alone. So for example,

>FooBah becomes fooBah
>Z becomes z
>URL becomes URL

>We provide a method Introspector.decapitalize which implements this
conversion rule.


They actually contradict themselves earlier in the document with this:

>Properties may be exposed in scripting environments as though they were
fields of objects. So in a Javascript environment I might do ?b.Label =
foo? to set the value of a property.

But I think its clear that Paul is right and we need to support the
lowercase style. Daniels just entering that as a feature request now....
(I would like to stay backward compatible though ... we should accept both
FooBar and fooBar.)