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Jodd BeanUtil is fast and powerful bean manipulation library.
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package jodd.bean;

/**
 * Supreme utility for reading and writing bean properties. However, this one is the fastest available.
 * Although it provides various methods, the whole thing can be easily extended to match most needs.
 * 
 * BeanUtil supports:
 * 

 * Nested properties: separated by a dot ('.')
 * Indexed properties: arrays or Lists
 * Simple properties: accessor or Map
 * 
 *
 * 
 * Variants includes combinations of forced, declared and silent writing.
 * 

 * Forced setting property tries to create destination property so it can be set correctly.
 * Silent doesn't throw an exception if destination doesn't exist or if conversion fails.
 * Declared includes only declared (public) properties.
 * 
 * 
 * This utility considers both bean property methods (set and get accessors), and bean fields.
 * This is done because of several reasons: often there is no need for both set/get accessors, since
 * bean logic requires just one functionality (e.g. just reading). In such case, other bean manipulation
 * libraries still requires to have both accessors in order to set or get value.
 * Another reason is that most common usage is to work with public accessors, and in that case
 * private fields are ignored.
 */
public interface BeanUtil {

	/**
	 * Default instance of {@link BeanUtilBean}.
	 */
	BeanUtil pojo = new BeanUtilBean();

	BeanUtil declared = new BeanUtilBean().declared(true);

	BeanUtil silent = new BeanUtilBean().silent(true);

	BeanUtil forced = new BeanUtilBean().forced(true);

	BeanUtil declaredSilent = new BeanUtilBean().declared(true).silent(true);

	BeanUtil declaredForced = new BeanUtilBean().declared(true).forced(true);

	BeanUtil declaredForcedSilent = new BeanUtilBean().declared(true).forced(true).silent(true);

	BeanUtil forcedSilent = new BeanUtilBean().forced(true).silent(true);

	// ---------------------------------------------------------------- SET

	/**
	 * Sets Java Bean property.
	 * @param bean Java POJO bean or a Map
	 * @param name property name
	 * @param value property value
	 */
	void setProperty(Object bean, String name, Object value);

	/**
	 * Sets indexed property.
	 */
	void setIndexProperty(Object bean, String property, int index, Object value);

	/**
	 * Sets simple property.
	 */
	void setSimpleProperty(Object bean, String property, Object value);


	// ---------------------------------------------------------------- GET

	/**
	 * Returns value of bean's property.
	 * 

	 * In silent mode, returning of null is ambiguous: it may means that property name
	 * is valid and property value is null or that property name is invalid.
	 * 
	 * Using forced mode does not have any influence on the result.
	 */
	 T getProperty(Object bean, String name);

	/**
	 * Returns value of indexed property.
	 */
	 T getIndexProperty(Object bean, String property, int index);

	/**
	 * Reads simple property.
	 */
	 T getSimpleProperty(Object bean, String property);


	// ---------------------------------------------------------------- HAS

	/**
	 * Returns true if bean has a property.
	 */
	boolean hasProperty(Object bean, String name);

	/**
	 * Returns true if bean has only a root property.
	 * If yes, this means that property may be injected into the bean.
	 * If not, bean does not contain the property.
	 */
	boolean hasRootProperty(Object bean, String name);

	/**
	 * Returns true if simple property exist.
	 */
	boolean hasSimpleProperty(Object bean, String property);


	// ---------------------------------------------------------------- type

	/**
	 * Returns property type.
	 */
	Class getPropertyType(Object bean, String name);


	// ---------------------------------------------------------------- misc

	/**
	 * Returns the very first name chunk of the property.
	 */
	public String extractThisReference(String propertyName);

}