PROPOSAL: Method and Field Literals (original) (raw)

Jesse Wilson jesse at swank.ca
Thu Mar 12 00:05:28 PDT 2009

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot < reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:

What's this useful for, exactly? Can anyone name me one non-exotic use-case?

In Glazed Lists we have an interface called TableFormat<http://publicobject.com/glazedlists/glazedlists-1.7.0/api/ca/odell/glazedlists/gui/TableFormat.html>that maps a value object to its columns for a table. A concise API to access methods would be convenient: TableFormat songsTableFormat = new TableFormat.Builder() .addColumn("Name", Song#getSongName()) .addColumn("Track #", Song#getTrackNumber()) .addColumn("Artist", Song#getArtist()) .addColumn("Album", Song#getAlbum()) .build();

Google Code Search suggests another 7,000 immediate candidates: http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%5C.class%5C.getMethod%5C%28%5C%22&sbtn=Search

This includes code from Apache HTTP client, Log4J, Ant, JPA, SwingX, EJB, SAX, Google Collections, GWT, Hibernate, Seam, MySQL, Equinox, Eclipse... you name it.

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