Spring's BeanUtils.copyProperties()
provides option to ignore specific properties while copying beans:
public static void copyProperties(Object source,
Object target,
String[] ignoreProperties) throws BeansException
Does the Apache Commons BeanUtils provide a similar feature?
Also is it possible to ignore null values while using Spring's BeanUtils.copyProperties()
, I see this feature with Commons BeanUtils:
Date defaultValue = null;
DateConverter converter = new DateConverter(defaultValue);
ConvertUtils.register(converter, Date.class);
Can I achieve the same with Spring's BeanUtils?
In case you are using the org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils
you can ignore specific properies using the method copyProperties(Object source, Object target, String... ignoreProperties)
. An example,
BeanUtils.copyProperties(sourceObj, targetObj, "aProperty", "another");