[castor-user] Mapping heterogenous collection

[Jonathan Bryant]

Hi,   I’m having trouble dealing with heterogenous collections using castor-xml. I have a request class which contains a map of parameters. The map key represents the name of the parameter. The value can be anything. I’ve got it working, but simple values like Strings, longs, etc. are being returned as <String>foo</String>. Is there a way to suppress the class name for some classes, or is there a better way to do this?     Here’s my mapping:   <mapping>     <class name="InsightsText">         <map-to xml="insightsText"/>         <field name="textType">             <bind-xml name="typeName" node="attribute"/>         </field>         <field name="text">             <bind-xml node="text"/>         </field>     </class>       <class name="DefaultRequest">         <map-to xml="request"/>         <field name="parameters" collection="map">             <bind-xml name="parameter" node="element">                 <class name="org.exolab.castor.mapping.MapItem">                     <field name="key" type="string">                         <bind-xml name="name" node="attribute"/>                     </field>                     <field name="value" type="java.lang.Object">                         <bind-xml node="element" auto-naming="deriveByClass"/>                     </field>                 </class>             </bind-xml>         </field>     </class> </mapping>       Here’s the result I’m getting.   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <request>     <parameter name="foo">         <long xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="java:java.lang.Long">1</long>     </parameter>     <parameter name="bar">         <insightsText xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" textType="insert"xsi:type="insightsText">efg</insightsText>     </parameter>     <parameter name="test">         <string xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"             xsi:type="java:java.lang.String">abc</string>     </parameter> </request>             Here’s the outline of the classes   public class Request {       public Map getParameters();     public void setParameters(Map parameters);   }   public class InsightsText {       public String getText() ;     public void setText(String text) ;     public String getTextType() ;     public void setTextType(String textType) ; }