BeanUtil

BeanUtil is a bean manipulation library that, in a nutshell, allows setting and reading bean properties. Several features make BeanUtil distinct:

  • fast (if not the fastest) bean manipulation utility

  • works with both attributes and properties

  • nested properties can be arrays, lists and maps

  • missing inner properties may be created

  • may work silently (no exception is thrown)

  • offers few populate methods

  • has strong-type conversion library

Flavors of BeanUtil

Before we jump into the details, let's quickly learn what types of BeanUtil exists. Implementations differ in the way how they threat private properties, if they throw exceptions and, finally, if they force the creation of missing inner properties (more details later). You can build your own implementation easily using BeanUtilBean, but these are already provided:

Name

Access Privates

Throws

Exceptions

Force

Missing

Properties

BeanUtil.pojo

no

yes

no

BeanUtil.declared

yes

yes

no

BeanUtil.silent

no

no

no

BeanUtil.forced

no

yes

yes

BeanUtil.declaredSilent

yes

no

no

BeanUtil.declaredForced

yes

no

yes

BeanUtil.declaredForcedSilent

yes

no

yes

BeanUtil.forcedSilent

no

no

yes

Let' jump into details!

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