Jessica,
At the bottom of section 5
(http://castor.codehaus.org/xml-mapping.html#5.-xsi:type) you are going
to find a statement similar to
Suppose we wanted the following XML instead:
<engine>
<myProcessor/>
</engine>
Instead of using the xsi:type attribute. If you read on, you are going
so see that you can instruct Castor XML to use the class name instead,
as specified in the following field mapping.
<field name="processor" type="IProcessor" required="true">
<bind-xml auto-naming="deriveByClass" node="element" />
</field>
I hope this answers your question in parts.
Werner
wg> -----Original Message-----
wg> From: Jessica Perry Hekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wg> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 4:02 PM
wg> To: [email protected]
wg> Subject: Re: [castor-user] Objects in Maps
wg>
wg> ...actually, as I struggle to get my little test case to
wg> break with that NullPointerException at
wg> org.exolab.castor.xml.MarshalFramework.searchInheritance
wg> (or alternately and even better to get the real code to NOT
wg> break), I realize: this whole project is intended to get
wg> the system to listen to commands via REST. As one coworker
wg> said when I asked him why we had setSuppressXSIType to true
wg> in the first place, "otherwise it puts in all kinds of
wg> stuff that we didn't think REST wanted to see."
wg>
wg> In other words, people are going to want to send XML over
wg> the wire to create a new one of these objects, and
wg> apparently we don't want to have to ask them to specify
wg> XSI:type. I can push back on this if necessary, but:
wg>
wg> Is there in fact another way to go about taking the XML for
wg> a map and turning it into a Map with the correct objects inside it?
wg>
wg> I fantasize about something like
wg>
wg> <map>
wg> <key>some string here</key>
wg> <value>
wg> <cost>...</cost>
wg> </value>
wg> </map>
wg>
wg> ...such that it knows to map "cost" into a Cost object. (I
wg> guess the question of how to map the key into a String remains.)
wg>
wg> Am I headed in completely the wrong direction?
wg>
wg> Jessica
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