[jira] Resolved: (JXPATH-146) JavaBean XPath with uppercase initial characters

["Matt Benson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH-146?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matt Benson resolved JXPATH-146.
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    Resolution: Not A Problem

To be honest I can't see how this feature fits into JXPath's mission to provide xpath handling of Java object graphs.  I could argue it would be just as easy for you to write a convenience layer over JXPath that does what you want, or simply clone BeanPointer, BeanPropertyPointer, and BeanPointerFactory and register your factory with a higher priority than BEAN_POINTER_FACTORY_ORDER to intercept the normal creation of BeanPropertyPointers with your own pointer implementation that includes the behavior you desire.

> JavaBean XPath with uppercase initial characters
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>
>                 Key: JXPATH-146
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH-146
>             Project: Commons JXPath
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>            Reporter: Ram
>            Priority: Minor
>
> XPath expressions executed against a JavaBean only work when the initial character is lower case.
>  context.getValue("firstName")   //works
>  context.getValue("FirstName")   //doesn't work
> The code internally is looking at PropertyDescriptors and these start with lower case as per the JavaBean spec.
> I will be nice if both versions work ( just like 'firstName' and '@firstName' work even though JavaBeans don't differentiate attributes vs elements).
> The fix may be simple as converting the initial character to lower case before the PropertyDescriptor lookup. Haven't looked at the impacts in detail though.
> Thoughts ?

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