Fetch attribute by reflection

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#1

What is the proper way to implement reflection in Cuba. Should I just use standard java refection? Or, should I use Cuba’s metadata somehow?

Specifically, I want to access an attribute of an entity using a string value for its name. For example, I have a string with value “affect” and I want to call entityInstance.getAffect().

Thanks
Eric

#2

Hi,

You can use Java reflection with CUBA entities, but also there is an embedded mechanism for extracting value of properties from entities:


entity.getValue("affect");
entity.setValue("affect", 10);

All these methods are declared in com.haulmont.chile.core.model.Instance.