org.springframework.binding
Interface PropertyAccessStrategy

All Known Subinterfaces:

MutablePropertyAccessStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPropertyAccessStrategy, AnnotationAwareBeanPropertyAccessStrategy, BeanPropertyAccessStrategy, ClassPropertyAccessStrategy, FormModelPropertyAccessStrategy, ObjectPropertyAccessStrategy

public interface PropertyAccessStrategy

A strategy for accessing a domain object's properties. Different implementations could access different backing objects such as a javabean (BeanPropertyAccessStrategy), hashmap, rowset, or other data structure.

Author:

Keith Donald

Method Summary

Object	getDomainObject() Return the target, backing domain object for which property access requests are targeted against.
PropertyMetadataAccessStrategy	getMetadataAccessStrategy() Get a metadata accessor, which can return meta information about particular properties of the backed domain object.
Object	getPropertyValue(String propertyPath) Get the value of a property.

Method Detail

getPropertyValue

Object getPropertyValue(String propertyPath)
                        throws BeansException

Get the value of a property.

Parameters:

propertyPath - name of the property to get the value of

Returns:

the value of the property

Throws:

FatalBeanException - if there is no such property, if the property isn't readable, or if the property getter throws an exception.

BeansException

getMetadataAccessStrategy

PropertyMetadataAccessStrategy getMetadataAccessStrategy()

Get a metadata accessor, which can return meta information about particular properties of the backed domain object.

Returns:

The meta accessor.

getDomainObject

Object getDomainObject()

Return the target, backing domain object for which property access requests are targeted against.

Returns:

The backing target object.