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Describe 

Apache Commons BeanUtils is a java library useful for accessing bean properties and methods. It provides introspection capabilities to view and manipulate the properties and operations provided by the given class. This requires the libraries commons-beanutils-1.8.3.jar, commons-beanutils-bean-collections-1.8.3.jar, commons-beanutils-core-1.8.3.jar, commons-collections-3.2.1.jar, commons-logging.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using BeanUtils.describe() API. It returns the properties of the specified bean as a map using bean getter methods.

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_beanutils/common/Student.java 
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_beanutils.common;

public class Student {

  private String name;
  private int age;
  private String hobby;

  public Student() {
  }

  public Student(String name, int age, String hobby) {
    super();
    this.name = name;
    this.age = age;
    this.hobby = hobby;
  }

  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }
  public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
  }
  public int getAge() {
    return age;
  }
  public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
  }
  public String getHobby() {
    return hobby;
  }
  public void setHobby(String hobby) {
    this.hobby = hobby;
  }
  
  public String toString() {
    return "Student[name = " + name + ", age = " + age + ", hobby = " + hobby + "]";
  }
}
   

File Name  :  
com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_beanutils/DescribeTest.java 
Author  :  Sudhakar KV
Email  :  [email protected]
   
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_beanutils;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils;

import com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_beanutils.common.Student;

public class DescribeTest {

  /**
   * @param args
   * @throws NoSuchMethodException 
   * @throws InvocationTargetException 
   * @throws IllegalAccessException 
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) 
    throws IllegalAccessException, 
    InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException {
    
    Student std = new Student("Sriram", 2, "Chess");
    Map data = BeanUtils.describe(std);
    System.out.println(data);
  }

}
   

It gives the following output, 
{name=Sriram, age=2, hobby=Chess, 
	class=class com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_beanutils.common.Student}



 
  


  
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