I have to admit that I have not read CASTOR-856 yet, but top of my head I think that it is not possible to achieve what you want.
Werner ________________________________ Von: Bret Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. April 2007 20:13 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: [castor-user] Referencing Parent Node's Data Is there a way to pass in parent data to a child class? It seems like it would be possible if the <field> mapping element could hold the class that is was mapped to instead of the bind-xml. Sorta letting you say this field equals this class and that class has the fields from its parent node set on it. This doesn't work, but is there a clever way of accomplishing something like this? <class name="TestSuite"> <map-to xml="testSuite"/> <field name="tests" collection="arraylist"> <class name="Test"> <field name="status" type="string"> <bind-xml name="status" node="attribute"/> </field> </class> </field> </class> <class name="Test"> <map-to xml="test"/> <field name="name" type="string"> <bind-xml node="text"/> </field> </class ________________________________ From: Bret Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [castor-user] Referencing Parent Node's Data Is there a way to map a parent node's data on a child nodes element? I have found where other people have asked a similar question, but no answers were given. I also looked to see if there were an Jira requests for this, and I found one from 2004 (CASTOR-856) that wasn't implemented, but I wasn't sure if this is because there is a work around. Below is an example: TestSuite holds tests. And I want to map the test's status to the "tests" element. This seems like it would be a pretty common request as the XML hierarchy often is a parent-child relationship where the children can inherit from their parent nodes. XML: <testsuite> <tests status="FAILED"> <test>test1</test> <test>test2</test <test>test3</test <test>test4</test </ tests> <tests status="PASSED"> <test>test1</test> <test>test2</test <test>test3</test <test>test4</test </tests> </testsuite> Objects: TestSuite (contains a List of Test Objects) Test (contains a string with its status) Can anyone show me how this would/could be mapped?
