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package org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapper;
import org.springframework.beans.BeanWrapperImpl;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
import org.springframework.util.Assert;

/**
 * This is a field extractor for a java bean. Given an array of property names,
 * it will reflectively call getters on the item and return an array of all the
 * values.
 * 
 * @author Dan Garrette
 * @since 2.0
 */
public class BeanWrapperFieldExtractor<T> implements FieldExtractor<T>, InitializingBean {

	private String[] names;

	/**
	 * @param names field names to be extracted by the {@link #extract(Object)} method.
	 */
	public void setNames(String[] names) {
		this.names = names;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.springframework.batch.item.file.transform.FieldExtractor#extract(java.lang.Object)
	 */
	public Object[] extract(T item) {
		List<Object> values = new ArrayList<Object>();

		BeanWrapper bw = new BeanWrapperImpl(item);
		for (String propertyName : this.names) {
			values.add(bw.getPropertyValue(propertyName));
		}
		return values.toArray();
	}

	public void afterPropertiesSet() {
		Assert.notNull(names, "The 'names' property must be set.");
	}
}
