From 42aa8f35a3efb90535ee99fa1b5fd91c09dd6cad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artur Signell <artur@vaadin.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:39:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] #8153 Add BeanItem.addNestedProperty

---
 src/com/vaadin/data/util/BeanItem.java | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/com/vaadin/data/util/BeanItem.java b/src/com/vaadin/data/util/BeanItem.java
index 69fc4b2d95..94439471f5 100644
--- a/src/com/vaadin/data/util/BeanItem.java
+++ b/src/com/vaadin/data/util/BeanItem.java
@@ -238,14 +238,25 @@ public class BeanItem<BT> extends PropertysetItem {
 
         for (String subproperty : subPropertySet) {
             String qualifiedPropertyId = propertyId + "." + subproperty;
-            addItemProperty(qualifiedPropertyId,
-                    new NestedMethodProperty<Object>(getBean(),
-                            qualifiedPropertyId));
+            addNestedProperty(qualifiedPropertyId);
         }
 
         removeItemProperty(propertyId);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Adds a nested property to the item.
+     * 
+     * @param nestedPropertyId
+     *            property id to add. This property must not exist in the item
+     *            already and must of of form "field1.field2" where field2 is a
+     *            field in the object referenced to by field1
+     */
+    public void addNestedProperty(String nestedPropertyId) {
+        addItemProperty(nestedPropertyId, new NestedMethodProperty<Object>(
+                getBean(), nestedPropertyId));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Gets the underlying JavaBean object.
      * 
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