You can set your own factories on Castor. Have a look at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-1669
for a recent conversation on setting custom object factories on the Unmarshaller. Werner > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006 14:54 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [castor-user] Create instance with factory-method > > Hi, > > I have some classes I need to marshall/unmarshall. These are > simple autogenerated beans with an abstract "frontend" that > contains setters and getters for all properties. > Instantiation is handled through static factory methods. I > can't change this implementation. I can, however, choose > whatever format is convenient for the XML instance document. > > I pretty much have the following: > > abstract class MyBean { > public void setFoo(String foo); > public String getFoo(); > } > > ..Which is then implemented by MyBeanImpl. Instances are > created with MyBean's internal factory class: > MyBean bean = MyBean.Factory.newInstance(); > > How can I express this in a mapping? Create-method attribute > seems to deal with something else entirely (cf. > create-method: Factory method for instantiation of FieldHandler). > > Chapter 5. xsi:types of the documentation takes me part of > the way, but this seems to still require that the > implementing class has an empty constructor. How can I use a > (no-arg) factory-method instead? Is there a simple way to do > this that I'm overlooking? > > > -- > Regards, > Audun > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
