net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.descriptor.api
Interface PojoPropertyDescriptor

All Superinterfaces:

PojoAttributeName

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPojoPropertyDescriptor, PojoPropertyDescriptorImpl

public interface PojoPropertyDescriptor
extends PojoAttributeName

This interface represents a property of a Pojo. A property is some attribute of a Pojo that can be accessed directly via a Field or via a Method (getter, setter, etc.). This PojoPropertyDescriptor is an alternative to PropertyDescriptor but only has focus on reflectively accessing objects. Therefore it works on any Pojo.

Since:

1.1.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

<ACCESSOR extends PojoPropertyAccessor> ACCESSOR	getAccessor(PojoPropertyAccessorMode<ACCESSOR> mode) This method gets the accessor to access the represented property in the way given by mode.
Collection<? extends PojoPropertyAccessor>	getAccessors() This method gets all available accessors for the represented property.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.util.pojo.descriptor.api.attribute.PojoAttributeName

getName

Method Detail

getAccessor

<ACCESSOR extends PojoPropertyAccessor> ACCESSOR getAccessor(PojoPropertyAccessorMode<ACCESSOR> mode)

This method gets the accessor to access the represented property in the way given by mode.

Type Parameters:

ACCESSOR - is the type of the requested accessor.

Parameters:

mode - is the mode of the requested accessor.

Returns:

the accessor for the given mode or null if no such accessor exists.

getAccessors

Collection<? extends PojoPropertyAccessor> getAccessors()

This method gets all available accessors for the represented property.

Returns:

a collection with all property descriptors