Hi, The BindingDirectory requires that one know the Class name that will be involved in the marshalling/unmarshalling tasks, i.e.:
static IBindingFactory getFactory(java.lang.Class clas) static IBindingFactory getFactory(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Class clas) This is very natural when marshalling as you already have the Class instance. However, when unmarshalling from some character stream, it isn't necessarily the case that the Class is known. It might be nice to have JiBX provide a lookup mechanism from QName (uri:local-name) to the mapped Class name, since this information is present in the binding files. This would allow a more natural usage where you could then obtain a factory without an argument: static IBindingFactory getFactory() and JiBX would determine the desired mapping in the context of that apps runtime environment (perhaps by scanning the class path for <binding/> file instances and extracting mappings). Has anyone else encountered this issue? Can JiBX already do this somehow? There are two cases where this would be extremely convenient: 1) An app which has many different model Classes mapped via JiBX and which are spread across many different Java packages. 2) An app which is composed of several sub-components, each of which has it's own JiBX binding file (after all JiBX is becoming ubiquitous!) and Classes spread over several packages. The second scenario is really just the evolution of the first as JiBX becomes more widely used. Both scenarios suggest that a common solution would be more appropriate than leaving it up to the individual apps. I've played around with a solution based on UmarshallingContext to the point where I can capture simple mappings (with both name and class attributes) within a defined directory, but, there's obviously more required (abstract mappings, extended mappings, structure/@map-as etc.) to have a full solution. Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this task? Or alternatives, perhaps? Thanks in advance, ...Leif ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ jibx-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jibx-users
