Binding to map properties

[scroyston]

I was reading this thread:
http://forum.springframework.com/vie...d6072 806aaeb

and almost posted an answer I thought would work, but I tried it out, and was surprised it didn't.

I figured you could bind map properties just like normal properties using the map propertyname spec: "attributes[key]". Doesn't work. I want to do:

public class Foo {
     private Map m_attributes = new HashMap();
   
     public Foo() {
                   m_attributes.put("myprop", "myvalue");
     }
}

...
SwingFormModel swingFormModel = SwingFormModel.createFormModel(new Foo(), true);
...
swingFormModel.createBoundControl("attributes[myprop]");

I should get a control that edits a string. I was suprised it didn't work, because this works:

            BeanWrapperImpl beanWrapper = new BeanWrapperImpl();
            beanWrapper.setWrappedInstance(new Foo());
            beanWrapper.setPropertyValue("attributes[foo]", new String("hello"));

The problem lies in the BeanPropertyAccessStrategy
1) Not using the BeanWrapper to correctly get the type
2) SwingFormModel (and others) not consistently asking just the BeanPropertyAccessStrategy for the type of a propertyName (sometimes it uses some ClassUtils stuff).

I've got a patch in progress, but I was wondering how to submit, because the changes are both in spring sandbox and springrc.

Thanks

[Keith Donald]

Submit them to JIRA - when you do please be sure to clearly document the feature and what the expected behaivior should be.

Thanks!
Keith