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BeanPropertySetter fails silently when property doesn't exist

           Summary: BeanPropertySetter fails silently when property doesn't
                    exist
           Product: Commons
           Version: 1.3 Final
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Digester
        AssignedTo: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: kcbaltz@yahoo.com


The BeanPropertySetter rule fails silently if the bean property named doesn't 
exist.  It should at the very least print a warning to the logging stream.  
Perhaps it should throw a NoSuchMethod exception.  I'm attaching an example of 
the problem.  The key section is:

    Digester digester = new Digester();
    digester.addObjectCreate( "Calendar", GregorianCalendar.class );
    digester.addBeanPropertySetter( "Calendar/millis", "TimeInMillis" );

Note that the property name is "TimeInMillis" when it should correctly 
be "timeInMillis".  An easy mistake to make, but difficult for the novice 
Digester user to track down.

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