net.sf.beanlib.provider
Class BeanChecker

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.beanlib.provider.BeanChecker

public class BeanChecker
extends Object

Bean Checker.

Author:

Joe D. Velopar

Field Summary

private BeanGetter	beanGetter
private org.apache.log4j.Logger	log Singleton instance.

Constructor Summary

BeanChecker()

Method Summary

boolean	beanEquals(Object fBean, Object tBean)
boolean	empty(Object fromBean, Class<?> k) Returns true if the fromBean is empty; or false otherwise.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

log

private final org.apache.log4j.Logger log

Singleton instance.

beanGetter

private final BeanGetter beanGetter

Constructor Detail

BeanChecker

public BeanChecker()

Method Detail

empty

public boolean empty(Object fromBean,
                     Class<?> k)

Returns true if the fromBean is empty; or false otherwise. It is considered empty if every publicly declared getter methods of the specified class either return null or blank string.

Parameters:

fromBean - java bean to check if empty or not.

k - specified class name from which the getter methods are derived.

beanEquals

public boolean beanEquals(Object fBean,
                          Object tBean)

Parameters:

fBean - from bean

tBean - to bean

Returns:

true if the two beans are equal in a JavaBean sense. ie. if they have the same number of properties, and the properties that can be read contain the same values. TODO: unit test me