Package org.castor.cpa.jpa.processors

Class ReflectionsHelper

java.lang.Object
org.castor.cpa.jpa.processors.ReflectionsHelper
public final class ReflectionsHelper extends Object
Tool class that offers methods to retrieve information from AnnotatedElements (Methods or Fields).
Version:
12.02.2009
Author:
Peter Schmidt

  • Method Details

    • getCollectionType

      public static Class<?> getCollectionType(AnnotatedElement target, boolean jpaTypesOnly) throws AnnotationTargetException
      Get the (raw) type of collection from the annotations target and optional check for JPA 1.0 restrictions (only Collection, Map, List and Set are allowed).
      Parameters:
      target - The ManyToMany annotations target.
      jpaTypesOnly - If set to true only Collection types of JPA 1.0 are allowed. Others will lead to a thrown Exception.
      Returns:
      The raw collection type.
      Throws:
      AnnotationTargetException - if the raw collection type can not be inferred from the type definition or if the type is not supported by JPA 1.0 and jpaTypesOnly was set to true.

    • getTargetEntityFromGenerics

      public static Class<?> getTargetEntityFromGenerics(AnnotatedElement target) throws AnnotationTargetException
      Get the target entity information from the target (necessary if it was not specified by the annotation itself).
      Parameters:
      target - The *ToMany annotations target. This method will fail if target is not of Type Field or Method!
      Returns:
      the relations target entity inferred by the targets generic definition or null if no generic definition was found at all.
      Throws:
      AnnotationTargetException - if the generic definition is not sufficient

    • getFieldnameFromGetter

      public static String getFieldnameFromGetter(Method getter)
      Little helper to get a field (bean property) name from a getter method.
      Example: getFoo() => "foo"
      Example: isBar() => "bar"
      Parameters:
      getter - the Method to analyse.
      Returns:
      the field name determined by the methods name or NULL if the method is not a getter (start with "get" or "is").

    • getSetterMethodFromGetter

      public static Method getSetterMethodFromGetter(Method getter) throws SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException
      Return a setter Method for a given getter Method.
      Parameters:
      getter - The getter Method
      Returns:
      The setter Method for the given getter Method.
      Throws:
      NoSuchMethodException - If the setter method does not exist
      SecurityException - If the setter method is not accessible

    • isGetter

      public static boolean isGetter(Method method)
      Convenience method to check whether a Method is a getter method, i.e. starts with "get" or "is".
      Parameters:
      method - the Method to check.
      Returns:
      true if the methods name starts with "get" or "is" (Java Beans convention).