Metafy

Generate meta information for Java objects.

Usage

Mark your class with @Metafy:

import br.ufsc.bridge.metafy.Metafy;

@Metafy
class AuthorDto {
	private Long id;
	private String name;
}

This will generate:

import br.ufsc.bridge.metafy.MetaBean;
import br.ufsc.bridge.metafy.MetaField;

public class MAuthorDto extends MetaBean<AuthorDto> {

	public static final MAuthorDto meta = new MAuthorDto();

	public final MetaField<Long> id = createField(Long.class, "id");
	public final MetaField<String> name = createField(String.class, "name");


	public MAuthorDto() {
		super(AuthorDto.class);
	}

	public MAuthorDto(MetaBean<?> parent) {
		super(parent, AuthorDto.class);
	}

	public MAuthorDto(MetaBean<?> parent, String alias) {
		super(parent, AuthorDto.class, alias);
	}

}

To be used as:

MAuthorDto meta = MAuthorDto.meta;

meta.id; // meta information about id attribute
meta.name; // meta information about name attribute