i just tried it out and it does most of what i was trying to achieve. like i said in my original post, i am looking for a dynamic way to write out the state of a persistent object as a string for logging/debugging, so i am not concerned with the xml binding side of things.
to fulfill my requirements i would like to see (and am happy to work on the implementation): 1. a way to configure whether proxy's or lazily initialised collections are initialised and printed or whether they r left uninitialised and just printed that they r a proxy or that the collection is lazy. i was thinking that this behaviour could simply be controlled by a settable boolean property on the Databinder interface. however, since a Databinder isn't currently re-usable, perhaps a openDatabinder(boolean) method on the SessionFactory is easier. 2. entities recursively printed. brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anton van Straaten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "hibernate list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [Hibernate] writing the properties of a persistent object to a string > > > Isn't that more like: > > > > sessionFactory.openDatabinder().bind(foo).toXML(); > > yes, of course. my bad > > > Great feature, btw! > > > > > > Is it?? I've never noticed anyone actually using this stuff, so I just let > it sit and go moldy. I was never sure *why*; Is it > > * a good feature but because I never documented it , nobody knows it works > * a good feature but because I never finished it (missing XML->objects), > nobody can use it yet > * a useful feature but the wrong approach > * not really useful to anyone > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
