[castor-user] Default value question

[Richardson, Aaron]

Hello All,   Currently I see that the field element definition looks like this:   <!ATTLIST field     name           CDATA  #REQUIRED     type           CDATA  #IMPLIED     required       ( true | false )  "false"     direct         ( true | false )  "false"     lazy           ( true | false )  "false"     handler        CDATA  #IMPLIED     get-method     CDATA  #IMPLIED     set-method     CDATA  #IMPLIED     has-method     CDATA    #IMPLIED     create-method  CDATA  #IMPLIED     transient      (true|false) "false"     container      ( true | false ) #IMPLIED     collection     ( array | arraylist | vector | hashtable | collection | set | map | enumerate )  #IMPLIED>     I was hoping that I would find a "default-value" attribute defined here as well that would drive the castor engine to not marshall out fields values that match "default-value".  The reason I'm looking for something like this is for efficiency gains.  My thinking is that if I have a million small objects that usually have 80% of their fields initialized correctly from construction there is no point in calling setWhateverField(false) the 800,000 extra times.    Hopefully I've provided enough information above as to what it is I'm looking for, but if there is confusion please let me know and I'll elaborate.  I've looked around the FAQs, Manuals, etc. and have not seen anything besides writing a custom Handler that would solve this problem.  Did I just miss it?   Thanks for your help!   Aaron Richardson