Filtering a list of JavaBeans with Google Guava

Question

In a Java program, I have a list of beans that I want to filter based on a specific property.

For example, say I have a list of Person, a JavaBean, where Person has

Answer 1

Here is an example of using generics using guava, beanutils to filter any list using requested match

/**
 * Filter List
 * 
 * @param inputList
 * @param requestMatch
 * @param invokeMethod
 * @return
 */
public static  Iterable predicateFilterList(List inputList, final String requestMatch,
        final String invokeMethod) {
    Predicate filtered = new Predicate() {
        @Override
        public boolean apply(T input) {
            boolean ok = false;
            try {
                ok = BeanUtils.getProperty(input, invokeMethod).equalsIgnoreCase(requestMatch);
            }
            catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return ok;
        }
    };
    return Iterables.filter(inputList, filtered);
}