[BEANUTILS-294] BeanUtilsBean.setProperty() does not support nested map

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0-BETA
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: Bean / Property Utils
• Assignee: Niall Pemberton
• Reporter: Stephen Leung
• Created: 03/Sep/07 15:56
• Updated: 25/Mar/08 08:08
• Resolved: 23/Mar/08 23:37

Description

I tried to call BeanUtilsBean.setProperty() with a DynaActionForm as the "bean" and "someMap" as the "name". In BeanUtilsBean.setProperty(), after the while loop at line 900, target became "null" and name became = "". And consequently IllegalArgumentException is thrown at line 930 when setProperty() tried to getPropertyDescriptor() of a null bean. Specifically, the following is the stack trace. Could somebody look into it?

Thanks.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No bean specified
at org.apache.common.beanutils.PropertyUtilsBean.getPropertyDescriptor(PropertyUtilsBean.java:871)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.setProperty(BeanUtilsBean.java:930)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtilsBean.populate(BeanUtilsBean.java:829)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils.populate(BeanUtilsBean.java:433)
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.pouplate(RequestUtils.java:467)
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