Copy specific fields by using BeanUtils.copyProperties?

Question

springframework.beans.BeanUtils is very useful to copy objects, and I use the \"ignoreProperties\" option frequently. However, sometimes I want to copy only spe

Answer 1

Here is an Example with Spring BeanUtils class:

public static void copyList(List sourceList,
        List targetList, Class targetType) {

    try {

        for (Object source : sourceList) {
            Object target = null;
            target = targetType.newInstance();
            BeanUtils.copyProperties(source, target);
            targetList.add(target);
        }

    } catch (InstantiationException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}