Class BeanModel

    • Constructor Detail

      • BeanModel

        public BeanModel​(Object object,
                         BeansWrapper wrapper)
        Creates a new model that wraps the specified object. Note that there are specialized subclasses of this class for wrapping arrays, collections, enumeration, iterators, and maps. Note also that the superclass can be used to wrap String objects if only scalar functionality is needed. You can also choose to delegate the choice over which model class is used for wrapping to BeansWrapper.wrap(Object).
        Parameters:
        object - the object to wrap into a model.
        wrapper - the BeansWrapper associated with this model. Every model has to have an associated BeansWrapper instance. The model gains many attributes from its wrapper, including the caching behavior, method exposure level, method-over-item shadowing policy etc.
    • Method Detail

      • get

        public TemplateModel get​(String key)
                          throws TemplateModelException
        Uses Beans introspection to locate a property or method with name matching the key name. If a method or property is found, it's wrapped into TemplateMethodModelEx (for a method or indexed property), or evaluated on-the-fly and the return value wrapped into appropriate model (for a simple property) Models for various properties and methods are cached on a per-class basis, so the costly introspection is performed only once per property or method of a class. (Side-note: this also implies that any class whose method has been called will be strongly referred to by the framework and will not become unloadable until this class has been unloaded first. Normally this is not an issue, but can be in a rare scenario where you create many classes on- the-fly. Also, as the cache grows with new classes and methods introduced to the framework, it may appear as if it were leaking memory. The framework does, however detect class reloads (if you happen to be in an environment that does this kind of things--servlet containers do it when they reload a web application) and flushes the cache. If no method or property matching the key is found, the framework will try to invoke methods with signature non-void-return-type get(java.lang.String), then non-void-return-type get(java.lang.Object), or alternatively (if the wrapped object is a resource bundle) Object getObject(java.lang.String).
        Specified by:
        get in interface TemplateHashModel
        Parameters:
        key - the name by which the TemplateModel is identified in the template.
        Returns:
        the TemplateModel referred to by the key, or null if not found.
        Throws:
        TemplateModelException - if there was no property nor method nor a generic get method to invoke.
      • hasPlainGetMethod

        protected boolean hasPlainGetMethod()
        Whether the model has a plain get(String) or get(Object) method
      • isEmpty

        public boolean isEmpty()
        Tells whether the model is empty. It is empty if either the wrapped object is null, or it's a Boolean with false value.
        Specified by:
        isEmpty in interface TemplateHashModel
      • getAdaptedObject

        public Object getAdaptedObject​(Class hint)
        Returns the same as getWrappedObject(); to ensure that, this method will be final starting from 2.4. This behavior of BeanModel is assumed by some FreeMarker code.
        Specified by:
        getAdaptedObject in interface AdapterTemplateModel
        Parameters:
        hint - the desired class of the returned value. An implementation should make reasonable effort to retrieve an object of the requested class, but if that is impossible, it must at least return the underlying object as-is. As a minimal requirement, an implementation must always return the exact underlying object when hint.isInstance(underlyingObject) holds. When called with java.lang.Object.class, it should return a generic Java object (i.e. if the model is wrapping a scripting language object that is further wrapping a Java object, the deepest underlying Java object should be returned).
        Returns:
        the underlying object, or its value accommodated for the hint class.
      • size

        public int size()
        Specified by:
        size in interface TemplateHashModelEx
        Returns:
        the number of key/value mappings in the hash.
      • keySet

        protected Set keySet()
        Helper method to support TemplateHashModelEx. Returns the Set of Strings which are available via the TemplateHashModel interface. Subclasses that override invokeGenericGet to provide additional hash keys should also override this method.