org.apache.velocity.util.introspection
Class IntrospectorBase

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.IntrospectorBase

Direct Known Subclasses:

Introspector

public abstract class IntrospectorBase
extends Object

Lookup a a Method object for a particular class given the name of a method and its parameters. The first time the Introspector sees a class it creates a class method map for the class in question. Basically the class method map is a Hashtable where Method objects are keyed by a concatenation of the method name and the names of classes that make up the parameters. For example, a method with the following signature: public void method(String a, StringBuffer b) would be mapped by the key: "method" + "java.lang.String" + "java.lang.StringBuffer" This mapping is performed for all the methods in a class and stored for.

Version:

$Id: IntrospectorBase.java 685685 2008-08-13 21:43:27Z nbubna $

Author:

Jason van Zyl, Bob McWhirter, Attila Szegedi, Paulo Gaspar, Henning P. Schmiedehausen

Field Summary

protected Log

log Class logger

Constructor Summary

protected

IntrospectorBase(Log log) C'tor.

Method Summary

protected IntrospectorCache	getIntrospectorCache() Return the internal IntrospectorCache object.
Method	getMethod(Class c, String name, Object[] params) Gets the method defined by name and params for the Class c.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

log

protected final Log log

Class logger

Constructor Detail

IntrospectorBase

protected IntrospectorBase(Log log)

C'tor.

Method Detail

getMethod

public Method getMethod(Class c,
                        String name,
                        Object[] params)
                 throws IllegalArgumentException,
                        MethodMap.AmbiguousException

Gets the method defined by name and params for the Class c.

Parameters:

c - Class in which the method search is taking place

name - Name of the method being searched for

params - An array of Objects (not Classes) that describe the the parameters

Returns:

The desired Method object.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - When the parameters passed in can not be used for introspection.

MethodMap.AmbiguousException - When the method map contains more than one match for the requested signature.

getIntrospectorCache

protected IntrospectorCache getIntrospectorCache()

Return the internal IntrospectorCache object.

Returns:

The internal IntrospectorCache object.

Since:

1.5