Jonathan- Unfortunately, I don't think there is anyway to change the element name for "primitive" classes (for the most part Castor treats Strings as primitives). Normally how you would do this is create a simple mapping that defined <map-to> in order to change the element name, but as I found out recently on an unrelated investigation, Castor doesn't even look for class mappings for primitive classes. My next best thought would be XSLT... Sorry I can't be of more help.
Stephen On 4/4/06, Jonathan Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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) ; > > } > > > > > > > > > >
