Re: [groovy-dev] patch for Object.eachPropertyName()

Hi John

Thanks for the patch.

We have a MetaProperty object in the groovy.lang package (like the 
MetaClass and MetaMethod objects) which I was hoping the eachProperty() 
method would iterate through. e.g. the eachProperty() method could 
iterate through the MetaClass.getMetaProperties() collection

e.g.

bean.eachProperty { |p|
     println("property name ${p.name} is of type ${p.type} with value 
${p.getProperty(bean)}")
}

One downside of this is that the last expression is a little verbose; a 
BeanProperty represents the property type for any instance and so you 
have to pass in an instance to get the value out. So maybe the 
eachProperty() method might generate a little wrapper object which 
hardwires in the bean you're iterating over so that we could do things 
like

bean.eachProperty { |p|
     println("property name ${p.name} is of type ${p.type} with value 
${p.value} on bean ${p.bean}")
}

Maybe we also need a version of this method which returns a list of 
properties...

bean.properties().findAll { it.type == String.class }.sort { it.name 
}.each { println("${it.name} = ${it.value}") }

On 13 May 2004, at 03:51, John Stump wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have here a little patch to implement the eachPropertyName()
> method on all Objects, which is mentioned in the TODO.txt file.
> This goes in the DefaultGroovyMethods.java file. I borrowed the
> property retrieving logic from the dump() method. With this, you
> can do something like this:
>
> a = new SomeClass()
> a.eachPropertyName { println "${it} = ${a[it]}" }
>
> I was also going to tackle the eachProperty() method mentioned
> along with eachPropertyName(), but I wasn't sure what the
> closure parameter(s) were.
>
> I thought there was a JIRA issue for this, but I couldn't find
> it...
>
>
> public static void eachProperty(Object self, Closure closure) {
>     Class klass = self.getClass();
>     boolean groovyObject = self instanceof GroovyObject;
>
>     while(klass != null) {
>         Field[] fields = klass.getDeclaredFields();
>
>         for(int i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
>             final Field field = fields[i];
>
>             if((field.getModifiers() & Modifier.STATIC) == 0) {
>                 if(groovyObject &&
> field.getName().equals("metaClass")) {
>                     continue;
>                 }
>
>                 AccessController.doPrivileged(
>                     new PrivilegedAction() {
>                         public Object run() {
>                             field.setAccessible(true);
>                             return null;
>                         }
>                     });
>
>                 // call the closure with this property name
>                 closure.call(field.getName());
>             }
>         }
>
>         // get the next parent class
>         klass = klass.getSuperclass();
>     }
> }
>
>
>
> 	
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