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John McDonnell
John McDonnell

Reputation: 803

Problem with BeanUtils from Apache

I'm trying to set a property in a bean and I cant seem to get BeanUtils to work...

Heres a small example of the problem I am getting.

public class Example
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Example example = new Example();
        example.run();
    }
    public void run()
    {
        try
        {
            Bean bean = new Bean();
            BeanUtils.setProperty(bean, "name", "myName");
            System.out.println(bean.getName());
        } catch (Exception ex)
        {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    private class Bean
    {
        private String name;

        public String getName()
        {
            return name;
        }

        public void setName(String name)
        {
            this.name = name;
        }
    }
}

When I run this I get an InvocationTargetException, saying "Cannot set name" Also when I the property string to "Name", I don't get the error, BUT the name isn't set.

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where I'm going wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2521

Answers (1)

MeBigFatGuy
MeBigFatGuy

Reputation: 28568

take the private attribute off of the Bean class. As BeanUtils is using reflection, it can't get access to the method 'setName'. The reason why you can access a private inner class normally, is that the java compiler does special tricks to allow you access. But since BeanUtils isn't using those tricks, it can't.

Upvotes: 3

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