Is there a way of accessing the properties of an object in java by using a string to represent the property's name, just like in JavaScript?

Question

In JavaScript you can access a property of an object in two ways:

object.property
object["property"]

In Java, I am only aware of the first way. Is there a way to access a Java object's properties by using a string as well?

Answer 1

You could use the Apache OGNL language , it is an external dependency that allows you to access properties with names in strings.

It has many more features, but you cannot expect that it simply expands your Java syntax - you will have to evaluate a String that contains an expression in that language.

In some cases you can embed it, like in Apache Camel, where it is "just another expression language".