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Colourfit
Colourfit

Reputation: 367

Cant copy properities of one class to another using BeanUtils

I have a piece of code where I copy the similar properities of one class to another using BeanUtils.copyProperities(dest, orig). However. This does not work. I get the error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory

I am using BeanUtils 1.9.2, Java 8, Windows 10, Eclipse.

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.*;

public class Main{
    public Main(){
        Entity entity = new Entity();
        AbstractGameObject aEntity = new AbstractGameObject();
        try {
            BeanUtils.copyProperties(aEntity, entity);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        System.out.println(aEntity.similar); // Should print out 10, No?;
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main main = new Main();
    }
    private class Entity{
        int similar = 10;
        int differentE = 9;
        public Entity(){

        }
    }
    private class AbstractGameObject{
        int similar = 2;
        int differentA = 1;
        public AbstractGameObject(){

        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3518

Answers (2)

Patience Mpofu
Patience Mpofu

Reputation: 473

Also, just a note that BeanUtils.copyProperties() will not work if you use Lombok to generate your public getters and setters. You must manually create them.

Upvotes: 3

David Pérez Cabrera
David Pérez Cabrera

Reputation: 5048

Important: classes must be public and copyProperties uses setters and getters. Try with:

public class Main {
    public Main()  {
        Entity entity = new Entity();
        AbstractGameObject aEntity = new AbstractGameObject();

        try {
            BeanUtils.copyProperties(aEntity, entity);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            // use a logger
        }
        System.out.println(aEntity.similar);
        System.out.println(entity.similar);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        Main main = new Main();
    }

    public class Entity {

        private int similar = 10;
        private int differentE = 9;

        public int getSimilar() {
            return similar;
        }

        public void setSimilar(int similar) {
            this.similar = similar;
        }

        public int getDifferentE() {
            return differentE;
        }

        public void setDifferentE(int differentE) {
            this.differentE = differentE;
        }        

    }

    public  class AbstractGameObject {

        private int similar = 2;
        private int differentA = 1;

        public int getSimilar() {
            return similar;
        }

        public void setSimilar(int similar) {
            this.similar = similar;
        }

        public int getDifferentA() {
            return differentA;
        }

        public void setDifferentA(int differentA) {
            this.differentA = differentA;
        }

    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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