I'm afraid properties are strings (actually, XML fragments) because this is defined in the WebDav specifications, of which Slide is an implementation. Also the entire WebDav protocol provides only String exchange, and provides propfind methods based on strings. Anyway, you can put an Integer or a Long or any other type of data simply "casting" it to a string :
int a = 55;
resource.proppatchMethod(new PropertyName("http://mysite.com/namespace";, "myproperty"), Integer.toString(a)); // or even a + ""
Integer a = new Integer(55);
resource.proppatchMethod(new PropertyName("http://mysite.com/namespace";, "myproperty"), a.toString());
// The toString() call is even superfluous in this case, javac should do this automatically.
If you need to serialize an entire object inside a property (consider it should be a SMALL object) you can use common serialization encoding it in a textual way (say, Base64) or consider using XMLEncoder from the java.beans package ... with XMLEncoder and XMLDecoder as long as your object graph is composed of regular beans (empty constructor, getters and setters) they can be automagically transformed to XML text and back to objects, ready to be stored in a property.
Ciao, Simone Gianni
At 15.53 24/05/2004, you wrote:
Looks like PropPatchMethod is not supporting setting datatypes on the properties to be set, thus limiting me to setting String type properties only.
Since my project absolutely requires support for other data types on the client side, I'm in wee bit of trouble.
Before I go ahead and extend Slide (PropPatchMethod and XMLPrinter from what I can gather) to support this, has anyone done this already?
-TPP
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