Stefan,
Can you provide a small example (the smaller the better) which would
demonstrate the problem?
Thanks,
--Keith
Stefan Champailler wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've been using Castor-XML for several month now and I'm happy with it.
> However,...
>
> It seems that the order of an array or vector is not preserved in case that
> array is told to be stored using reference="true" in the bind-xml element.
> For example, my situation is like this : I have a tree. Each node of the tree
> contains a vector of children (standard stuff). However, I have a "big" array
> in which I put a reference to all the nodes of the tree. Therefore, I have
> two ways to run the tree : by doing a standard, recursive tree run on each
> nodes or by looking at the nodes as they are listed in the "big" array. Now,
> when I store the elements in XML with Castor, I instruct it to store the
> "big" array, not the elements as a tree-structure (this makes a cleaner XML).
> Therefore, it stores all the nodes, one by one, ordered as in the big array.
> Each node's child is represented as a reference (using <bind-xml
> reference="true"...) Unfortunately, when I do that, Castor looses the order
> of the elements in each of the vector of children. However, the resulting
> order is not random, it strictly follows the order in which the nodes appears
> in the "big" array. So, whatever the order of the children of any node,
> everything gets reordered according to the big array's order.
>
> As a fix, I have told Castor to store the node of the tree recursively,
> without reference, and after that, to store the "big" array with references
> to the nodes. Working this way brings the result I expected (however
> information is duplicated).
>
> I checked the bug reports and it seems there are some issues with ordering,
> but I don't feel I'm connected to those issues. Moreover, I noticed that
> nowhere in the documentation it is said that the order is preserved, so maybe
> it's just a feature :)
>
> Thank you for any help.
>
> stF
>
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