Ok @Andreas Sinz well yes I know there's no glaring issue in the code and it isn't wrong to do this, but it seems so exhaustive, and imagine like this method there are many others, each handling tracking

And it just looks ugly

For example is there a way that I can look for an object's properties and find a property by a string?

If this property's name is "country_code"

Im not sure really how to improve on this but it's definitely too exhaustive looking and ugly

yea…not much value added if there’s no loop, and you can’t loop if you’re only selecting a limited number of properties from the object

i’ll come back with a clearer problem

So this is only for fully automatic solution

but you can improve your code just using apply on

mpProperties

or even writing some dsl like:

mpProperties.putAll {
   "car_id" to listing.id
}

ok, yea either full automatic or not, i noticed

i will ask more about this DSL if you dont mind, later 🙂

I actually asked this in #getting-started but I don’t think it falls into what they can help with how can I print the name of any variable?

var1.javaClass.getFieldByName(String)

is what im using right now but im not sure what to feed

getFieldByName

im in the process of fixing what you suggested the other day

Not sure what exactly do.ypu want to achive, because there are many different ways to implement such mapping with reflections