Re: [Webmacro-devel] Capitalised properties in WM, why?!

[Lane S. <la...@op...>]

A bean implements accessors and mutators as  get|set{PropertyName} and 
that WebMacro follows this pattern to resolve the public method with a 
caps on the property name.

Alternatively, you can access the member as  $instance.name and 
$instance.description if the instance is declared publically.

Finally, you can access an object in a map as $map.marc or $map.Marc and 
it will resolve properly both if either exists so there has to be some 
flexibilty in allowing both cap types to co-exist. Right?

-Lane

Marc Palmer wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone remind me exactly why WM breaks the Java Beans spec. with 
> respect to capitalisation of properties?
>
> i.e. if you introspect a bean and get the following properties:
>
> name
> description
>
> ...to access these in a template you must write:
>
> $bean.Name
> $bean.Description
>
> This looks "nicer" to e of course, but the break from the beanspec is 
> a pain in the ass, and is no doubt responsibly for quite a lot of 
> messaing around in the introspection code in WM where everthing will 
> have lower case first letters.
>
> I've written a BeanInfoWrapper that dumps into a template all the 
> useful info about an object. This is being used in the webapp's help 
> syste so any java object put into the context can potentially be 
> introspected and help shown. However what you get back is not very 
> useful unless a xxxxBeanInfo class has also been written, in which 
> case you get plain english descriptions of the object, each property, 
> what every method does and what the parameters are called and what 
> they do.
>
> ...but I'm going to have to make it capitalise all the property names 
> for it to make sense ;-(
>
> Oh, and my colleague has nearly finished the simplified XML access 
> helper - already I have most of an RSS news feed included into a demo 
> template without too much trouble. We have some caching fun to do 
> though... but I will mail about that separately.
>
> Cheers


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