1 /* 2 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 package org.apache.commons.betwixt.strategy; 17 18 import java.beans.Introspector; 19 20 /** 21 * <p>A name mapper which converts types to a decapitalized String.</p> 22 * 23 * <p>This conversion decapitalizes in the standard java beans way 24 * (as per <code>java.beans.Introspector</code>). 25 * This means that the first letter only will be decapitalized except 26 * for the case where the first and second characters are both upper case. 27 * When both are upper case, then the name will be left alown.</p> 28 * 29 * <p>So a bean type of <code>Foo</code> will be converted to the element name <code>"foo"</code. 30 * <code>FooBar</code> will be converted to <code>"fooBar"</code>. 31 * But <code>URL</code> will remain as <code>"URL"</code>.</p> 32 * 33 * @author <a HREF="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a> 34 * @version $Revision: 1.6 $ 35 */ 36 public class DecapitalizeNameMapper implements NameMapper { 37 38 /** 39 * Decapitalize first letter unless both are upper case. 40 * (As per standard java beans behaviour.) 41 * 42 * @param typeName the string to convert 43 * @return decapitalized name as per <code>java.beans.Introspector</code> 44 */ 45 public String mapTypeToElementName(String typeName) { 46 return Introspector.decapitalize( typeName ); 47 } 48 } 49