org.joda.beans

Interface PropertyMap

All Superinterfaces:

Map<String,Property<?>>

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicPropertyMap, MapBeanPropertyMap

public interface PropertyMap
extends Map<String,Property<?>>

A map of properties that is linked to a specific bean.

For a JavaBean, this will ultimately wrap get/set method pairs. Alternate implementations may perform any logic to obtain the value.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface java.util.Map

Map.Entry<K,V>

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Map<String,Object>	flatten() Flattens the contents of this property map to a Map.

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map

clear, containsKey, containsValue, entrySet, equals, get, hashCode, isEmpty, keySet, put, putAll, remove, size, values

Method Detail

flatten

Map<String,Object> flatten()

Flattens the contents of this property map to a Map.

The returned map will contain all the properties from the bean with their actual values.

Returns:

the unmodifiable map of property name to value, not null