[castor-dev] UnMarshaling an xml message to Java array (int[]) appends elements to the end, instead of replacing it

[Bikash Behera]

Hi All,

 

Let us say you have a class:

class Data

{

     int[] items = new int[] {1, 2, 3};

}

 

If you get an xml message like:

 

<Data>
    <items>4</items>

    <items>5</items>

</Data>

 

After unmarshaling it creates a Data object with an int[] containing {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
Instead we would like to see the int[] to contain {4, 5}

We had discussed introducing "replacing" support instead of "appending".
Does the new version of Castor support a way to instruct the Unmarshaler to "replace" instead to "append"?

 

Thanks,
Bikash.