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

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:10:28 -0800, Lane Sharman <la...@op...> 
wrote:

> 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?

Yeah, I realise all this... but my point is that this is NOT compliant with 
the bean specification.

If you use an IDE that allows setting of properties of a bean via a GUI you 
see properties as "name" not "Name". This is because the Java introspection 
and bean spec mandates that the first letter of property names is lower 
case - it does not just chop off the get/set.

I just wonder if there is a specific reason for this or if it is just on a 
whim i.e.  "I don't like lowever case first chars".

I'm ust whingeing because it's annoying when you need to expose info about 
a bean and have to convert every property name.

-- 
Marc Palmer