Hi August,
remember that you can always use a FieldHandler in order not to clutter
your POPOs.
Cheers
Werner
PS I think that you could have tried to suppress output of 'xsi:'
statements as well when marshalling, but it looks like you found a solution.
August Detlefsen wrote:
> I don't think the legacy system at the other end can handle elements like
> that. I actually solved the problem by forcing the value of the CostCenter
> field to be not-null in the Java Object. If you try to set the field to null,
> it uses "" instead:
>
> protected String costCenter = "";
>
> public void setCostCenter(String newValue) {
> costCenter = (newValue == null) ? "" : newValue;
> }
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Werner Guttmann <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, October 14, 2009 4:04:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [castor-dev] Force an element to be marshalled
>
> Hi August,
>
> if the following is an option to you, yes there is ....
>
> <LineItem>
> <ItemNumber>124029</ItemNumber>
> <ItemQty>1</ItemQty>
> <CostCenter xsi:nil=true" />
> </LineItem>
>
> Werner
>
> August Detlefsen wrote:
>> Is there any way to force an element to be marshalled to XML even if the
>> field in the Java object is null or empty?
>>
>> I am marshalling XML to a remote web service that requires a CostCenter
>> field in the XML, even if that field is null. Here is an example of the XML
>> that is being produced:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <Order>
>> <LineItem><ItemNumber>124029</ItemNumber><ItemQty>1</ItemQty><CostCenter>1234567.1234.123</CostCenter></LineItem>
>> <LineItem><ItemNumber>122094</ItemNumber><ItemQty>1</ItemQty></LineItem>
>> <LineItem><ItemNumber>119106</ItemNumber><ItemQty>1</ItemQty></LineItem>
>> <LineItem><ItemNumber>119105</ItemNumber><ItemQty>1</ItemQty></LineItem>
>> </Order>
>>
>> Only the first <LineItem> includes the <CostCenter> element, but I need all
>> of them to include it, even if it is an empty item i.e.
>> <CostCenter></CostCenter>
>>
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