Re: Custom properties
"Thomas Fritsch" <i.dont.like.spam@invalid.com> wrote in message
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I would modify your requirement (interface CustomProperty) as follows:
(*) The class has to provide a public constructor taking a String
argument.
(*) The class does *not* have to provide a fromPropertyString(String)
method. (hence you don't have to give up immutability)
Obviously the loading from a string gets more clumsy then.
But at least one can tuck away that clumsiness into a utility method:
public static Object createFromPropertyString(String s) {
try {
Constructor ctor = c.getDeclaredConstructor(new
Class[]{String.class};
return ctor.newInstance(new Object[]{s});
} catch(Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
Thanks, that makes more sense.
I can also Generify it which I really wanted to do.
static <T> CompoundProperty
createFromPropertyString(String propStr, Class<T> clazz) {
try {
Constructor ctor = clazz.getDeclaredConstructor(
new Class[]{String.class});
Object instance = ctor.newInstance(new Object[]{propStr});
return (CompoundProperty)instance;
} catch(Exception ex) {
throw new RuntimeException(ex);
}
}
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