I think that's just the way JiBX works.
You might consider a workaround of creating a new setter method
setValueIfNull() that does nothing if the value is already set.
-Archie
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Vincent Fumo <vfumo.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got 2 xml files to unmarshall using jibx. They have identical
> structure with one exception : one of the elements has a different
> attribute name for the same property. I'd like to use the same binding but
> I'm getting behavior that I don't understand. Can anyone help?
>
> A Generalization of the files:
>
> File 1
>
> <A><B name="foo"/></A>
>
> File 2
>
> <A><B key="foo"/></A>
>
> My binding looks something like this :
>
> <structure name="A" ordered="false" flexible="true" usage="optional">
> <structure name="B" ordered="false" flexible="true" usage="optional">
> <value style="attribute" name="name" set-method="setValue"
> get-method="getValue" usage="optional"/>
> <value style="attribute" name="key" set-method="setValue"
> get-method="getValue" usage="optional"/>
> </structure>
> </structure>
>
> Note that I've used 2 value elements calling the same accessors and set
> them both to optional.
>
> The issue is that when I run for file 1 my property is set to null, when I
> run for file 2 my property is set correctly ("foo").
>
> My guess is that jibx is calling both of these value elements even though
> the attributes are set at optional. Is this a bug in jibx? Am I doing
> something wrong?
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
>
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