Ellen, Ning Zhao wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > just followed your link and wrote a test program after reading the > content. It worked! Cool! Now I'm made my decision of using Castor! > > There was one thing worth noticing in my test. Say I have four classes > Document, Content (abstract), TextParagraph extends Content, Table > extends Content. In the base class Content there is a member field > called "id". There is a List<Content> in the Document class as a member. > In my first mapping file, I said > > <class name="TextParagraph" identity="id"> > <class name="Table" identity="id"> > > Test failed, Castor complained that she could not find the id > descriptor. Then I moved the identity="id" to the Content class. Then > everything was okay. Ideally Castor should try to find the descriptor of > a field in the base class automatically. This looks like a bug to me, to be honest. Would you please be so kind and raise a bug report at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR, and attach your files (please keep them as minimal as possible).
> And I found an attribute "container = true | false" of the <field> > element (not documented in the online tutorial yet). Yes, I know. Feel free to supply us with a patch (or a simple improvement) to the HTML docs. Or at least raise a Jira issue as well, asking us to fix this. > My IDE popped this > up in the selection list while I was typing. Out of curiosity I checked > out the mapping.dtd and found the explaination. This attribute is very > handy for my project, many thanks to the Castor team for offering it! Yes, I agree that - especially together with the location attribute - this is a very powerful feature. > > > Best Regards, > Ellen N. Zhao > Stephen Bash schrieb: >> Ellen- >> >> Have you seen: >> >> http://castor.org/how-to-use-references-in-xml.html >> >> I think that's basically what you're looking for, but feel free to >> elaborate if it doesn't quite fit your needs. >> >> Thanks, >> Stephen >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Ning Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Dear all! >>> >>> I'm evaluating object2xml tools for using in a project with very complex >>> object relationships. Now the finalists are Castor and JiBX. Basically I >>> like Castor's simple and clean mapping syntax very much. JiBX can do >>> more in >>> term of decoupling the xml representation and their model objects but >>> the >>> mapping synatx is wordier. Things like performance do not really >>> matter in >>> my case. Ease of use does count (a big plus for Castor). The crucial >>> thing >>> is, I must map nested objects (very complex objects, by the way) using >>> their ids, otherwise the output xml will be bloated with repeated >>> representation of huge objects. >>> >>> To be concrete, please have a look here: >>> >>> http://jibx.sourceforge.net/tutorial/binding-collects.html#collects >>> >>> The feature in the section "Working with IDs" is exactly what I want. >>> I read >>> the Castor tutorial again ( http://castor.org/xml-mapping.html ) >>> and did >>> not see similar feature. Of course I can tweak my model object classe to >>> have the id of the member object as a member field and only map that id >>> field. But that's not really an elegant solution. Did I miss anything >>> in the >>> Castor tutorial? Any hint or how-to advice would be highly appreciated! >>> >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Ellen N. Zhao >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
