[jira] Resolved: (BEANUTILS-314) BeanUtils.describe() doesn't handle corectly array fields like String[]

["Niall Pemberton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-314?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Niall Pemberton resolved BEANUTILS-314.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

The describe method converts everything to a String - so the only option you have is on how it handles String[] --> String conversion. So since BeanUtils 1.8.0 you register a String array converter that does something different than just take the first value in the Map - but in order to have describe use that converter (rather than the String converter) is to register BeanUtilsBean2. The new array converter has an option "setOnlyFirstToString" - which if you set to false will return a delimited list of all the values:

        BeanUtilsBean.setInstance(new BeanUtilsBean2());
        ArrayConverter converter = new ArrayConverter(String[].class, new StringConverter(), 0);
        converter.setOnlyFirstToString(false);
        ConvertUtils.register(converter, String[].class);

If you want the actual String array, then you need to create your own BeanUtilsBean implementation with your own describe behaviour.

hth

Niall


> BeanUtils.describe() doesn't handle corectly array fields like String[]
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEANUTILS-314
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-314
>             Project: Commons BeanUtils
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Bean / Property Utils
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.0, 1.8.0-BETA
>         Environment: Windows XP, Java 1.6.0_10-beta-b13
>            Reporter: Tomáš Procházka
>
> When bean has array field like String[] , BeanUtils.describe()  doesn't add String[] to Map, but get only first array item and convert it to String. But BeanUtils.populate(b, tMap) correctly set String[] from map to bean property.
> Here is example:
> {code:title=BeanTest.java|borderStyle=solid}
> public class BeanTest {
> 	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> 		BeanTest bt = new BeanTest();
> 		bt.test();
> 	}
> 	private void test() throws Exception {
> 		Bean b = new Bean();
> 		b.setData(new String[]{"a", "b", "c"});
> 		b.setName("ahoj");
> 		Map map = BeanUtils.describe(b);
> 		System.out.println(map.get("data"));
> 		System.out.println(map.get("name"));
> 	}
> 	public class Bean {
> 		public String[] getData() {
> 			return data;
> 		}
> 		public void setData(String[] data) {
> 			this.data = data;
> 		}
> 		public String getName() {
> 			return name;
> 		}
> 		public void setName(String name) {
> 			this.name = name;
> 		}
> 		private String[] data;
> 		private String name;
> 	}
> }
> {code}
> Expected result:
> System.out.println(map.get("data"));
> must return String[] with {"a", "b", "c"}.
> This bug is in 1.70 and also in 1.8.0

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