Introspection and upper/lower case

["WATKINS, Andy, FM" <An...@rbos.com>]

We're trying to be consistent with Java property names
accross our projects....
What is the best choice for upper/lower case?
I would like to use properties starting with a lowercase letter
but velocity examples all use uppercase.

Thus for methods

getNumberOfConnections() and setNumberOfConnections()

JSP:
on a class we access them via JSP as getProperty with property name
"numberOfConnections"

Velocity:
In velocity, can we use "lower case dot notation"
$server.numberOfConnections or
do we have to use uppercase as the velocity examples eg
$server.NumberOfConnections ?
If velocity expects UpperCase, this seems inconsistent with JSP and apache
BeanUtils...

XML Configuration files:
I would like to use XML to configure the startup state
of some of our components, perhaps using BeanUtils to automate
the mapping of XML attributes to method calls. Thus
we would use 

<server>
      <!-- this will call setNumberOfConnections -->
	<set-property name="numberOfConnections" value="5" />
</server>



Andy


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Re: Introspection and upper/lower case

["Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@yahoo.com>]

On 11/14/01 7:18 AM, "WATKINS, Andy, FM" <An...@rbos.com> wrote:

> We're trying to be consistent with Java property names
> accross our projects....
> What is the best choice for upper/lower case?
> I would like to use properties starting with a lowercase letter
> but velocity examples all use uppercase.
> 
> Thus for methods
> 
> getNumberOfConnections() and setNumberOfConnections()
> 
> JSP:
> on a class we access them via JSP as getProperty with property name
> "numberOfConnections"
> 
> Velocity:
> In velocity, can we use "lower case dot notation"
> $server.numberOfConnections or
> do we have to use uppercase as the velocity examples eg
> $server.NumberOfConnections ?
> If velocity expects UpperCase, this seems inconsistent with JSP and apache
> BeanUtils...

The beanspec says that NumberOfConnections is the right token for something
with get/set.

However, for convenience, Velocity will let you use a lowercase 'n'.  That
is the second choice, as it tries to find a method

  getNumberOfConnections()

In the object first, and then

  getnumberOfConnections()


To summarize, it's your call.  Beanspec says 'N', and we support that.  Some
people want 'n', and we support that.

> 
> XML Configuration files:
> I would like to use XML to configure the startup state
> of some of our components, perhaps using BeanUtils to automate
> the mapping of XML attributes to method calls. Thus
> we would use 
> 
> <server>
>     <!-- this will call setNumberOfConnections -->
> <set-property name="numberOfConnections" value="5" />
> </server>
> 

?

-- 
Geir Magnusson Jr.                                     geirm@optonline.net
System and Software Consulting
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin



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