Q: I am using AppleScript for Java and I have a routine that shows up as a property
instead of a method in the automatically generated 'aete' resource.
My method:
public void
setDictionaryName( String name ){...}
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Shows up in the AppleScript dictionary as:
Properties:
<Inheritance>
Object [r/o]
dictionary name
string -- public void foo.setDictionaryName(String) |
I was expecting the dictionary to look
like this:
MyClass:
setDictionaryName: public voidfoo.setDictionaryName(String)
setDictionaryName reference
parameters string |
Why is this happening?
A: If you have a method that uses the standard
Java bean syntax for property accessor routines (i.e., methods that are in the format setX(), getX(), or isX() where X is a property name), the introspector will assume that the routines are class properties.
The method you declared looks like a routine for
setting the value of the dictionaryName property, so it is interpreted as a property accessor function. As a result, the default behavior for the automatic terminology generator creates an entry in the
dictionary in the property format instead of a method format.
This behavior may actually be preferred since it is a lot easier to script an application as:
set dictionary name of foo 1 to "English Language"
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compared to:
setDictionaryName of foo 1 parameters { "English Language" }
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[May 17 1999]
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