org.apache.velocity.app

Class FieldMethodizer


public class FieldMethodizer
extends java.lang.Object

This is a small utility class allow easy access to static fields in a class, such as string constants. Velocity will not introspect for class fields (and won't in the future :), but writing setter/getter methods to do this really is a pain, so use this if you really have to access fields.

The idea it so enable access to the fields just like you would in Java. For example, in Java, you would access a static field like

  MyClass.STRING_CONSTANT
  
and that is the same thing we are trying to allow here.

So to use in your Java code, do something like this :

   context.put("runtime", new FieldMethodizer( "org.apache.velocity.runtime.Runtime" ));
  
and then in your template, you can access any of your static fields in this way :
  
   $runtime.RUNTIME_LOG_WARN_STACKTRACE
  

Right now, this class only methodizes public static fields. It seems that anything else is too dangerous. This class is for convenience accessing 'constants'. If you have fields that aren't static it may be better to handle them by explicitly placing them into the context.

Version:
$Id: FieldMethodizer.java,v 1.3 2001/03/05 11:44:48 jvanzyl Exp $

Author:
Geir Magnusson Jr.

Field Summary

private HashMap
classHash
Hold the class objects by field name
private HashMap
fieldHash
Hold the field objects by field name

Constructor Summary

FieldMethodizer()
Allow object to be initialized without any data.
FieldMethodizer(Object o)
Constructor that takes as it's arg a living object to methodize.
FieldMethodizer(String s)
Constructor that takes as it's arg the name of the class to methodize.

Method Summary

void
addObject(Object o)
Add an Object to methodize
void
addObject(String s)
Add the Name of the class to methodize
Object
get(String fieldName)
Accessor method to get the fields by name.
private void
inspect(Class clas)
Method that retrieves all public static fields in the class we are methodizing.

Field Details

classHash

private HashMap classHash
Hold the class objects by field name


fieldHash

private HashMap fieldHash
Hold the field objects by field name

Constructor Details

FieldMethodizer

public FieldMethodizer()
Allow object to be initialized without any data. You would use addObject() to add data later.


FieldMethodizer

public FieldMethodizer(Object o)
Constructor that takes as it's arg a living object to methodize. Note that it will still only methodized the public static fields of the class.

Parameters:


FieldMethodizer

public FieldMethodizer(String s)
Constructor that takes as it's arg the name of the class to methodize.

Parameters:
s - Name of class to methodize.

Method Details

addObject

public void addObject(Object o)
            throws Exception
Add an Object to methodize


addObject

public void addObject(String s)
            throws Exception
Add the Name of the class to methodize


get

public Object get(String fieldName)
Accessor method to get the fields by name.

Parameters:
fieldName - Name of static field to retrieve

Returns:
The value of the given field.


inspect

private void inspect(Class clas)
Method that retrieves all public static fields in the class we are methodizing.


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