[jira] Commented: (BEANUTILS-304) BeanDiff - encapsulate, apply, and merge bean differences

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Java Developer commented on BEANUTILS-304:
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Sorry for English:

Take advantage of both worlds, I mean we can have a default behavior for beans which doesn't implement the interface nor annotated( like BeanUtils.copyProperties(dest, src) ), and, customized differentiating behavior for beans which implement the interface or are annotated.

This way the programmer can implement his/her customized differentiating behavior as well.

Choice between interface and annotation is a bit challenging because some decisions of differentiating algorithm could be made at run-time. Annotations can not help in run-time case. For an example: the decision about Sub-diff for current property may be annotated with @Subdiff or be implemented with the assist of an interface which is more flexible and dynamic.

Think about both annotation and interface :)

> BeanDiff - encapsulate, apply, and merge bean differences
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEANUTILS-304
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-304
>             Project: Commons BeanUtils
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Bean / Property Utils, Bean-Collections, ConvertUtils & Converters, DynaBean
>    Affects Versions: LATER THAN 1.8.4
>            Reporter: Mark Lewis
>             Fix For: LATER THAN 1.8.4
>
>   Original Estimate: 240h
>  Remaining Estimate: 240h
>
> It would be great to have a way to compare two beans and capture the diff somehow.  This is just my initial brainstorm on the idea:
> - The BeanDiff class encapsulates differences between two beans -of the same type-, the source bean and the target bean.
> - A BeanDiff instance represents what property assignments would be necessary to turn the target bean into the source bean.
> - A BeanDiff can be applied to a target bean, performing the necessary property assignments to make its property values exactly match the source bean.
> - Two BeanDiff instances can be merged into a single BeanDiff instance, allowing multiple source beans to be merged into one target bean.
> - If a conflict would occur during a merge (from a property being assigned two different values), a BeanDiffConflictException is thrown.
> - The BeanDiffConflictException contains an array of BeanDiffConflict objects.
> - Each BeanDiffConflict instance represents a single property and the two conflicting values that were to be assigned.
> - All these actions would work on DynaBeans as well.
> - +Converters would be able to account for type differences in source and target bean properties.+
> An example of how this could be used is when dealing with ORM and optimistic locking.  Knowing exactly which properties have been modified would allow concurrent modification of a bean (record) without fear of reasserting the original values and destroying someone else's changes.

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