Re: Binding to a POJO
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> writes:
Okay, how about:
public class PropertyChangeUtils {
private static final PropertyChangeSupport support; // initialise this somehow
public static <T> T change(String propertyName, T oldValue, T newValue) {
support.firePropertyChange(propertyName, oldValue, newValue);
return newValue;
}
}
import static PropertyChangeUtils.change;
private String foo;
public void setFoo(Object foo) {
this.foo = change("foo", this.foo, foo);
}
The code in the setter is fractionally (well, ~25%) more complicated
than with your version, but there's no reflection, and you have static
type safety.
It does fire the property change event before actually changing the
property, though; i don't know enough about Swing to know if that
would be a problem.
That breaks what I see as the implicit contract for property change
events: a listener receiving a change event can reasonably expect to
call the object's getter and see the new value.
More importantly, each object has its own set of listeners, and so needs
its own instance of PropertyChangeSupport to keep track of them: you
can't share a PropertyChangeSupport instance between objects.
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