You can do the below mentioned workaround using a custom FieldHandler,
This will allow you to marshal keys and values yet not change your
object model.
There has been examples of this in the mailing list in the past.
--Keith
Gregory Fox wrote:
>
> Unfoturnately, I can't change the model to match the
> persistence mechanism.
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Somewhere in the docs there is mentioned that
> > hashmap's / tables are not
> > marshaled properly. In the marshalling process the
> > key gets discarded.
> >
> > One workaround could be:
> >
> > Have a method called getEntries() and one called
> > setEntries(). Have
> > these then take / return a Entry[] as argument, with
> > an Entry being
> > something like:
> >
> > public class Entry
> > {
> > Object key;
> > Object value;
> > }
> >
> > and have those two methods then work on your hashmap
> > / table.
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > --Alex
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gregory Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 17 June 2003 06:08
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [castor-dev] Can't figure out HashMap
> >
> > I am having a few problems getting my Business Model
> > to work with Castor. In this message I will ask
> > about
> > my HashMap problem. It currently comes out as shown
> > below without the "key" being saved. It of course
> > can't be read back in in this format. What do I
> > need
> > to do to get this stored out properly.
> >
> > <myStrategy xsi:type="mySpecialStrategy">
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">6</attributes>
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">2</attributes>
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">4</attributes>
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">7</attributes>
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">1</attributes>
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">3</attributes>
> > <attributes
> > xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">5</attributes>
> > </myStrategy>
> >
> >
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