[TAPESTRY-1932] Extend PropertyModel to allow access to annotations associated with the property

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0.6
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.11
• Component/s: Framework
• Assignee: Howard Lewis Ship
• Reporter: Kevin Menard
• Created: 24/Nov/07 19:11
• Updated: 26/Feb/08 20:44
• Resolved: 26/Feb/08 20:44

Description

Oftentimes I have to work with beans that I do not have the source for. These beans come out of a library that is shared amongst other apps or out of a third party library. As such, annotating fields with the "Validate" annotation or the proposed "PropertyType" annotation (see TAPESTRY-1931) are not possible.

What would be great is if the PropertyModel exposed these customizations via API additions. Then, during model customization, one could do something similar to the following:

model.add("some_text_property").addValidation("required")

Or:

model.add("some_text_property").setType("longtext")