I'm afraid I miss understood your original question and am not sure what the best approach is.
Sorry J -----Original Message----- From: Matt Goodwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 5:12 PM To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: Re: [betwixt] Collection property question public void testReadBean() { try { File file = new File(FILE1); BeanReader beanReader = new BeanReader(); beanReader.registerBeanClass(AgentStatement.class); AgentStatement statement = (AgentStatement)beanReader.parse(file); } catch(Exception e) { fail(e.getMessage()); } } xml file: <AgentStatementVO> <StatementDate>2004/10/08</StatementDate> <AgentInfoVO> <FirstName/> <Name>xxxx</Name> <AgentId>xxxx</AgentId> <Address1>xxxx</Address1> <Address2>xxxx</Address2> <City>xxxx</City> <State>xx</State> <Zip>xxxxx</Zip> <AgentType>xxxx</AgentType> <DisbursementSource>xxxx</DisbursementSource> </AgentInfoVO> <AgentStatementLineVO> <AgentNumber>xxxx</AgentNumber> <ProductType>xxxx</ProductType> <FirstName>xxxx</FirstName> <Name>xxxx</Name> <EffectiveDate>2004/10/04</EffectiveDate> <ProcessDate>2004/10/05</ProcessDate> <OwnerName>xxxx</OwnerName> <PolicyNumber>0</PolicyNumber> <InitialPremium>0</InitialPremium> <CommissionRate>0.0</CommissionRate> <CommissionPremium>0</CommissionPremium> <Type>xxxx</Type> <AmountDue>0</AmountDue> </AgentStatementLineVO> <AgentStatementLineVO> <AgentNumber>xxxx</AgentNumber> <ProductType>xxxx</ProductType> <FirstName>xxxx</FirstName> <Name>xxxx</Name> <EffectiveDate>2004/10/04</EffectiveDate> <ProcessDate>2004/10/05</ProcessDate> <OwnerName>xxxx</OwnerName> <PolicyNumber>0</PolicyNumber> <InitialPremium>0</InitialPremium> <CommissionRate>0.0</CommissionRate> <CommissionPremium>0</CommissionPremium> <Type>xxxx</Type> <AmountDue>0</AmountDue> </AgentStatementLineVO> <AgentEarningsVO> <TaxableIncome>0.0</TaxableIncome> <TaxableIncomeYTD>0.0</TaxableIncomeYTD> <PositivePolicyEarnings>0</PositivePolicyEarnings> <NegativePolicyEarnings>0</NegativePolicyEarnings> <NetPolicyEarnings>0</NetPolicyEarnings> </AgentEarningsVO> </AgentStatementVO> reads all non-plural elements fine. when i change AgentStatementLineVO to non-plural (regular getter/setter for the object) it works fine as well. Thanks, Matt Tim O'Brien wrote: >Could you send the complete code you are using to read with? > >Tim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Matt Goodwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thu 1/13/2005 2:58 PM >To: Jakarta Commons Users List >Subject: Re: [betwixt] Collection property question > >I have that set. It appears that my class is not being recognized in >the parse process. My add method on my class is never called. > >Matt > > >Jason Wood wrote: > > > >>I think you want this ... >> >> IntrospectionConfiguration.setWrapCollectionsInElement(false) >> >>Jason >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Matt Goodwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:02 AM >>To: Jakarta Commons Users List >>Subject: [betwixt] Collection property question >> >> >>I have xml I need to map to my bean. It is very similar to the >>CustomerBean example, except I am using Collection instead of and array >>of objects (i.e. Order[]). Here is a sample of the xml, followed by my >>class, followed by my .betwixt file. The problem I am having is the >>List is always null. How do you map objects in the .betwixt file if the >>collection has no surrounding element tag (i.e. >><orders></order></order></orders>)? >> >>Example xml: >><AgentStatementVO> >> <StatementDate>2004/10/08</StatementDate> >> <AgentInfoVO>...</AgentInfoVO> >> <AgentStatementLineVO>...</AgentStatementLineVO> >> <AgentStatementLineVO>...</AgentStatementLineVO> >> <AgentEarningsVO>...</AgentEarningsVO> >></AgentStatementVO> >> >>Class: >>public class AgentStatement implements java.io.Serializable { >> private Date statementDate; >> private AgentInfo agentInfo; >> private Collection agentStatementDetails = new java.util.ArrayList(); >> private AgentEarning agentEarning; >> /* .. snip non-relevant getters/setters */ >> public Collection getAgentStatementDetails() { >> return agentStatementDetails; >> } >> public void setAgentStatementDetails(Collection agentStatementDetails) { >> this.agentStatementDetails = agentStatementDetails; >> } >> public void addAgentStatementDetail(AgentStatementDetail >>agentStatementDetail) { >> this.agentStatementDetails.add(agentStatementDetail); >> } >>} >> >>Betwixt file: >><?xml version='1.0' ?> >><info> >> <element name='AgentStatementVO'> >> <element name='StatementDate' property='statementDate'/> >> <element name='AgentInfoVO' property='agentInfo'/> >> <element name='AgentStatementLineVO' >>property='agentStatementDetails' >>class='com.equitrust.commissionloader.beans.AgentStatementDetail'/> >> <element name='AgentEarningsVO' property='agentEarning'/> >> </element> >></info> >> >>Everything except the agentStatementDetails are populated correctly. >> >>Thanks, >> >>Matt >> >> >> >> >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Matt Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)708-0114 Metalexis "Transcending the Ordinary" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]