org.dom4j.bean
Class BeanMetaData

java.lang.Object
  org.dom4j.bean.BeanMetaData

public class BeanMetaData

extends Object

BeanMetaData contains metadata about a bean class.

Version:

$Revision: 1.10 $

Author:

James Strachan

Field Summary

protected static Object[]

NULL_ARGS Empty arguments for reflection calls

Constructor Summary

BeanMetaData(Class beanClass)

Method Summary

int	attributeCount() DOCUMENT ME!
BeanAttributeList	createAttributeList(BeanElement parent)
static BeanMetaData	get(Class beanClass) Static helper method to find and cache meta data objects for bean types
Object	getData(int index, Object bean)
int	getIndex(QName qName)
int	getIndex(String name)
QName	getQName(int index)
protected void	handleException(Exception e)
void	setData(int index, Object bean, Object data)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NULL_ARGS

protected static final Object[] NULL_ARGS

Empty arguments for reflection calls

Constructor Detail

BeanMetaData

public BeanMetaData(Class beanClass)

Method Detail

get

public static BeanMetaData get(Class beanClass)

Static helper method to find and cache meta data objects for bean types

Parameters:

beanClass - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

DOCUMENT ME!

attributeCount

public int attributeCount()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the number of attribtutes for this bean type

createAttributeList

public BeanAttributeList createAttributeList(BeanElement parent)

getQName

public QName getQName(int index)

getIndex

public int getIndex(String name)

getIndex

public int getIndex(QName qName)

getData

public Object getData(int index,
                      Object bean)

setData

public void setData(int index,
                    Object bean,
                    Object data)

handleException

protected void handleException(Exception e)