Map Object to HashMap

I have an object of type ClassA , and I want to map it on a HashMap , Keys of the HashMap will be the attributes name of classA .
Thank you in advance.

Samy Ganou wrote:I have an object of type ClassA , and I want to map it on a HashMap , Keys of the HashMap will be the attributes name of classA .
Thank you in advance.

Your question is not clear.

This won't be a problem as long as you have correctly overriden both the equals and the hashCode methods. What is your problem ?

I found a solution : the Dozer can help me to do this .. i'm trying to implement ..

My problem by an example :
ObjectA : att1= a1 , att2 = a2 want to transform it to a HashMap containing : {key => "att1", value => a1} etc

Ah, you mean Dozer.

I think some of the Apache Bean Utils do this; I'm thinking about the BeanMap type stuff--haven't used it for awhile, though.

I believe Reflection is all you need. Nothing else but the reflection's API from Java.

That's all you *need*, but why reinvent the wheel?

Andre Brito wrote:I believe Reflection is all you need. Nothing else but the reflection's API from Java.

Thank you , it's the best solution!

Samy Ganou wrote:Thank you , it's the best solution!

Why is it the "best solution"? There's a library that someone else has already built and tested (Dozer), trying to make your own will take you much more time than just using the library.

By the way, I've also once (long ago) written a similar kind of class to view a Java bean as a Map, I have it on my computer somewhere and I've used it in projects on several occasions.