Thanks, you confirmed my suspicions.
Are you saying I can use Splittable to achieve polymorphism? How? Have you 
ever tried?
Of course I can somehow get rid of polymorphism in my classes, but I'd 
rather do not.

On Saturday, October 13, 2012 1:41:46 PM UTC+2, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>
> No, AutoBean has no mean to support polymorphism, and it specifically 
> cannot be used for your use-case.
> You can possibly use Splittable, at a lower-level, or Elemental's JSON, JS 
> overlays, or JSONObject.
>
> On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:40:16 PM UTC+2, Andrea Boscolo wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I am developing an app in which I use (or at least I would like to use) 
>> AutoBeans for serializing data. Unfortunately it seems to me that 
>> polymorphism is not supported i.e., I lost the concrete type once I 
>> deserialize the json in client-side, only the Base supertype is available.
>> I looked everywhere but I haven't found some concrete answer, so I hope 
>> someone has already faced (and why not, solved) this problem.
>> I created a really simple testcase that can be found on 
>> https://gist.github.com/3884099
>>
>> I know AutoBean is behind RequestFactory so I though it supports 
>> polymorphism as well. I don't want to rely on RF as I do not need such 
>> complexity, I just simply need a way to serialize beans using AutoBean, but 
>> polymorphism is a must.
>>
>> Is is even achievable? Hope someone can help.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Andrew.
>>
>

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