[HAPI-devel] javabean compliant get/set pairs

[Jim K. <ji...@ho...>]

Hi-

I've been looking at using HAPI as a tool in a couple of projects.  One of 
the issues I'm having stems from the way accessors and mutators are set up 
in the API.  In the 0.4.2 release, HAPI isn't javabean spec 1.01 compliant 
and therefore doesn't work with a lot of technologies that require javabean 
support.  In my particular case, I'm trying to use OGNL to create bindings 
between HAPI and tabular data representations.

It'd be great if the sourcegen tool could generate HAPI classes that were 
javabean compliant.  I don't think it would be difficult to incorporate this 
and it could most likely exist right along side the current accessor/mutator 
scheme.  With proper javabean support, HAPI classes would be open for 
integration with a whole host of api's such as ognl(tapestry, webwork) 
beanutils (struts), hibernate, etc.

For a quick example of what I'm talking about, the ORU_R01 class might be 
changed to


public MSH getMSH(); // simple getter
public void setMSH(); // simple setter

public void setter(int index, PropertyType value); // indexed setter
public ORU_R01_PIDPD1NK1NTEPV1PV2ORCOBRNTEOBXNTECTI 
getORU_R01_PIDPD1NK1NTEPV1PV2ORCOBRNTEOBXNTECTI(int index); // indexed 
getter

public void 
getORU_R01_PIDPD1NK1NTEPV1PV2ORCOBRNTEOBXNTECTI(ORU_R01_PIDPD1NK1NTEPV1PV2ORCOBRNTEOBXNTECTI 
[] value); // array setter
public ORU_R01_PIDPD1NK1NTEPV1PV2ORCOBRNTEOBXNTECTI[] 
getORU_R01_PIDPD1NK1NTEPV1PV2ORCOBRNTEOBXNTECTI(); // array getter


Has anyone considered this?  What do you think?

By the way, the API as it stands is a tremendously valuable piece of 
software.

Thanks.

Jim