org.joda.beans
Interface PropertyMap

All Superinterfaces:

Map<String,Property<?>>

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicPropertyMap

public interface PropertyMap
extends Map<String,Property<?>>

A map of properties that is linked to a specific bean.

For a JavaBean, this will ultimately wrap get/set method pairs. Alternate implementations may perform any logic to obtain the value.

flatten

Map<String,Object> flatten()

Flattens the contents of this property map to a Map.

The returned map will contain all the properties from the bean with their actual values.

Returns:

the unmodifiable map of property name to value, not null