thanks, Keith.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Visco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [castor-dev] dealing with non-schema
> date/time formats
>
>
>
> I would probably opt for the GeneralizedFieldHandler
> myself and use
> auto-complete so that I could keep using introspection
> everywhere except
> for the specific date fields.
>
> <class name="Foo" auto-complete="true">
> <field name="date" type="..." handler="MyCustomDateHandler"/>
> </class>
>
>
> I suppose another option is to write the
> XMLClassDescriptor and simply
> associate your date class with the descriptor in the
> ClassDescriptorResolver.
>
> --Keith
>
> "Ostermueller, Erik" wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We need to marshal/unmarshal some proprietary
> date/time formats.
> > Here are my options, as I see 'em:
> >
> > 1) pre-process the xml before passed to castor unmshalling,
> > post-process after marshalling. Very slow. :-(
> > 2) Add a SAX DocumentHandler (or is it
> ContentHandler?) to the chain.
> > It would convert from proprietary format to schema
> format before unmarshal and
> > vice-versa after the marshal.
> > 3) Use the hot new GeneralizedFieldHandler.
> > **** Is there a way to do this w/o using a mapping file? ****
> > -- b/c we don't have the need for mapping file yet.
> > 4) Create a new date/time handler (hack up the source).
> >
> > Have I missed anything?
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Erik
> >
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