public PropertyDescriptor getPropertyDescriptor()

in src/main/java/org/apache/commons/beanutils2/PropertyUtilsBean.java [828:889]
48 lines of code
11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    public PropertyDescriptor getPropertyDescriptor(Object bean,
                                                           String name)
            throws IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException,
            NoSuchMethodException {
        if (bean == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("No bean specified");
        }
        if (name == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("No name specified for bean class '" +
                    bean.getClass() + "'");
        }

        // Resolve nested references
        while (resolver.hasNested(name)) {
            final String next = resolver.next(name);
            final Object nestedBean = getProperty(bean, next);
            if (nestedBean == null) {
                throw new NestedNullException
                        ("Null property value for '" + next +
                        "' on bean class '" + bean.getClass() + "'");
            }
            bean = nestedBean;
            name = resolver.remove(name);
        }

        // Remove any subscript from the final name value
        name = resolver.getProperty(name);

        // Look up and return this property from our cache
        // creating and adding it to the cache if not found.
        if (name == null) {
            return null;
        }

        final BeanIntrospectionData data = getIntrospectionData(bean.getClass());
        PropertyDescriptor result = data.getDescriptor(name);
        if (result != null) {
            return result;
        }

        Map mappedDescriptors = getMappedPropertyDescriptors(bean);
        if (mappedDescriptors == null) {
            mappedDescriptors = new ConcurrentHashMap<Class<?>, Map>();
            mappedDescriptorsCache.put(bean.getClass(), mappedDescriptors);
        }
        result = (PropertyDescriptor) mappedDescriptors.get(name);
        if (result == null) {
            // not found, try to create it
            try {
                result = new MappedPropertyDescriptor(name, bean.getClass());
            } catch (final IntrospectionException ie) {
                /* Swallow IntrospectionException
                 * TODO: Why?
                 */
            }
            if (result != null) {
                mappedDescriptors.put(name, result);
            }
        }

        return result;
    }