That's an interesting question. So would this feature
instantiate objects with a no-arg constructor?
I haven't seen that kind of thing in Castor.
--Erik
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> I am writing an application that stores it's data to an
> XML file. I have been using Castor to develop it and
> it is simply a wonderful framework and tool. The data
> that my app uses is well structured and is represented
> by an object graph. The root object is called
> "History" which contains many "Event" objects. Each
> "Event" object has other to-one and to-many
> relationships and so on. The problem is that when I
> instantiate a History object, I have to manually
> instantiate each and every relationship. It's not a
> problem for small object graphs but I am dealing with a
> complex object with many relationships. From what I
> can tell, Castor only supports shallow instantiation
> meaning when you create a new instance of a class, it
> does not create any of the mandatory relationships. It
> would be nice if there was a SourceGenerator option to
> select either shallow or deep instantiation. Deep
> instantiation will make it easier to code applications
> using complex object graphs and keep ! things
> consistent when the underlying schema changes. Is
> there such an option or is this a feature request?
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