Re: Accessing property via "Unary Accessor"

WebMacro has to be precise in its spelling of properties because it's  
the only way to provide predictable results.

For example, what if your Bean also had:
	gettitle()
	getTitle()
         getTiTle()
	getTITLE()
	gettitlE()
	etc, etc

Which one would you want WebMacro to choose when the template  
designer typed $board.title?

This is somewhat of a hack, but if you want case-insensitive matching  
for property names, don't expose them at all through member  
functions, but instead implement a single get() method:

	public Object get(String proname) {
		return _propmap.get(proname.toLowerCase());
	}

This would allow any of these to return the same value:
	$board.title
	$board.Title
	$board.TITLE
	$board.TitLe
	etc, etc

But really, it's a horrible horrible idea and you shouldn't do it.   
Instead, just get used to WebMacro honoring the case of property  
names as they were defined in your class.  :)

eric


On Mar 7, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Sven Schliesing wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having a class "Board" which has a private property "title".  
> For this property there is also a public getter "getTitle()", so  
> that webmacro can access it via "$board.Title"
>
> Unfortunately this was so uncommon to me, that I tried  
> "$board.title" for nearly two hours now before realizing what I was  
> doing wrong.
>
> What is the reason (I'm pretty sure that there is a good one :) )  
> that the accessor is not (also) trying "getTitle()" when using  
> "$board.title"? The property is "title" and not "Title", so. In  
> general a template designer should not even care about that. He  
> should know what properties the Bean got ("title" in my case) and  
> not how their getters are spelled.
>
>
> Or am I getting something totally wrong? :)
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Greetings from snowy Hamburg
>
> Sven
>
>
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