I've just added a couple of factory methods so you can easily create
an XStreamDataFormat using a String factory method or via Java code...
XStreamDataFormat format =
XStreamDataFormat.processAnnotations(A.class, B.class);
2008/10/23 James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> That sounds great.
>
> I wonder BTW if we should just provide a constructor to the
> XStreamDataFormat class which allows a list of classes to be
> specified?
>
> Then in spring XML you can do the equivalent of invoking the constructor...
>
> XStreamDataFormat(Class... classesWithAnnotations) {
> ...
> }
>
> 2008/10/23 cmoulliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> James,
>>
>> In the meantime, I have implemented an interesting workaround to allow what
>> I describe in my previous message.
>>
>> Here is a explanation + code of what I have done. Maybe, this could interest
>> other users.
>>
>> 1) Formatter Class
>>
>> I have created a factory Formatter class who will generate a
>> XStreamDataFormat object through a createInstance method. This method is
>> called by Spring through the factory-method property and receives as
>> parameter the name of the class to be formatted by Xstream.
>>
>> import org.apache.camel.dataformat.xstream.XStreamDataFormat;
>>
>> import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
>>
>> public class Formatter {
>>
>> private static XStreamDataFormat myDataformat;
>>
>> private Formatter() {}
>>
>> @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
>> public static XStreamDataFormat createInstance(Class
>> classToBeFormated) {
>>
>> XStream xstream = new XStream();
>> xstream.processAnnotations(classToBeFormated);
>> myDataformat = new XStreamDataFormat();
>> myDataformat.setXStream(xstream);
>>
>> return myDataformat;
>>
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> 2) Spring and Camel configuration
>>
>> To allow Camel to use the XStreamDataFormat object formatted with my
>> StockPrice class, I create a bean reference in the spring-camel.xml file
>> where the parameter provided as argument is the name of the class to be
>> formatted and the method to be called in my factory is createInstance.
>>
>> <bean id="myXstreamDataFormat" class="com.mycompany.model.Formatter"
>> factory-method="createInstance">
>> <constructor-arg value="com.mycompany.model.StockPrice" />
>> </bean>
>>
>> Here is a snaphot of the Camel route who uses the myXStreamDataFormat bean
>> reference
>>
>> <route>
>> <from
>> uri="timer:generateStockPrice?fixedRate=true&delay=0&period=6000" />
>> <to uri="bean:stockPriceGenerator" />
>> <marshal ref="myXstreamDataFormat" />
>>
>> Remark : the class to be formatted uses Xstream annotation
>>
>> Here is the code :
>>
>> import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAlias;
>> import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAsAttribute;
>>
>> @XStreamAlias("price")
>> public class StockPrice {
>> @XStreamAsAttribute
>> private String stock;
>>
>> @XStreamAsAttribute
>> private double price;
>>
>> @XStreamAsAttribute
>> private String movement;
>>
>> @XStreamAsAttribute
>> private double offer;
>>
>> public double getOffer() {
>> return offer;
>> }
>>
>> public void setOffer(double offer) {
>> this.offer = offer;
>> }
>>
>> public String getMovement() {
>> return movement;
>> }
>>
>> public void setMovement(String movement) {
>> this.movement = movement;
>> }
>>
>> public String getStock() {
>> return stock;
>> }
>>
>> public void setStock(String stock) {
>> this.stock = stock;
>> }
>>
>> public double getPrice() {
>> return price;
>> }
>>
>> public void setPrice(double price) {
>> this.price = price;
>> }
>>
>> @Override
>> public String toString() {
>> return "StockPrice[stock: " + stock + " bid: " + price + " offer: "
>> + offer + " movement: " + movement + "]";
>> }
>> }
>>
>> In consequence, using spring in combination with XStream Annotation, I'm
>> able to marshall/unsmarshall my objects no matter which model is required
>> (StockPrice.class, ....) and mapping strategy required between the XML
>> and/or java attributes.
>>
>> KR,
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> James.Strachan wrote:
>>>
>>> 2008/10/22 cmoulliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>
>>>> In this case, it will be required that I create my own format
>>>> (XSTreamDataFormat) like this o use annotation :
>>>>
>>>> XStream xstream = new XStream();
>>>> xstream.processAnnotations(StockPrice.class);
>>>> XStreamDataFormat myformat = new XStreamDataFormat();
>>>> myformat.setXStream(xstream);
>>>>
>>>> from("direct:in").marshal(myformat).to("mock:result");
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you have to tell XStream which classes to look for annotations? I'd
>>> have thought, like JAXB, it'd just look for the annotations by default
>>> on whatever classes it was marshalling. But I guess for unmarshalling
>>> it needs to know (rather like the JAXBContext needs to know the
>>> classes/packages)
>>>
>>>> Remark :
>>>>
>>>> It should be interesting to use the xstream dataformat with a parameter
>>>> indicating that XStream must process annotation
>>>> from("").marshal().xstream().processAnnotation().to("") to avoid to
>>>> create
>>>> its own DataFormat ?
>>>
>>> I think like JAXB, we'd just need to create the XStreamDataFormat
>>> explicitly using whatever configuration is required
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
>>
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>
>
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