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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 MethodUtils.invokeMethod() API. It invokes the named method with given arguments.

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/InvokeMethodTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_beanutils;



import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;

import org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils;

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



public class InvokeMethodTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws InvocationTargetException 

   * @throws IllegalAccessException 

   * @throws NoSuchMethodException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchMethodException, 

    IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException {

    

    Student std = new Student("Sriram", 2, "Chess");

    String name = (String) MethodUtils.invokeMethod(std, "getName", null);

    System.out.println(name);

    

    Integer age = (Integer) MethodUtils.invokeMethod(std, "getAge", null);

    System.out.println(age);

    

    Boolean contains = (Boolean) MethodUtils.invokeMethod(name, "contains", "Sri");

    System.out.println(contains);

    

    name = (String) MethodUtils.invokeMethod(name, "concat", new Object [] { " Kasireddi" });

    System.out.println(name);

    

  }



}

Invoke Method