[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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I've attached better and more complete implementation of BeanDiff here:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-394

'FinalConfigClasses.zip' contains implementation.

> 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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