[beanutils] [PATCH] WrapDynaBean enhancement

[Niall Pemberton <ni...@blueyonder.co.uk>]

I submitted a Bugzilla enhancement request (including a PATCH)  for the WrapDynaBean and WrapDynaClass:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23690


The changes I would like are:

1) Provide a "getter" for the wrapped JavaBean instance.

2) Imlement newInstance() method in WrapDynaClass (currently throws "unsupported" exception).

3) The get(name) and set(name, value) methods trap exceptions and output a (possibly) misleading IllegalArgumentException, also these methods can be made more efficient by using the PropertyDescriptor already stored in WrapDynaClass to execute the underlying method rather than using the PropertyUtils which generates a PropertyDescriptor each time these methods are called.

An example of the mis-leading exception was if you call the set(name, value) method for an java.lang.Integer property with a  java.lang.String value then PropertyUtils.setSimpleProperty() throws an IllegalArgumentException with the message "argument type mismatch", however WrapDynaBean catches this and throws an IllegalArgumentException with the message "Property '[name]' has no write method".

Thanks

Niall