Hi, daab wrote: > > Werner Guttmann wrote: >> How do these objects relate to each other ? Are they part of e.g. an >> inheritance hierarchy ? Will each of those objects be mapped ? >> > Originally, they weren't part of a hierarchy. But they are now, correct ?
> What I ended up trying was > the example on the castor homepage where a hashtable of objects was wrapped > inside a class and that that class would be written. I couldn't get this to > work though. Why not ? Have you seen the HOW-To that shows you how to map a Map of objects to XML ? This is a recipe that has been tried before it has been written. > > > Werner Guttmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> can you define the term 'multiple objects' for us ? >> >> Werner >> > I mean a sequence of objects. They have a list of authors within the book > object they marshal, so I suppose technically they cover it. In this case, > I'd want to do multiple books. > > In the end what has worked for me is: > http://www.castor.org/how-to-map-a-list-at-root.html > The setRootElement method is very useful. This is what I am doing now: > try { > //Create list from hashtable > List myObjectList = new LinkedList(); > Enumeration keySetNumeration = myObjectTable.keys(); > while(keySetNumeration.hasMoreElements()) { > > myObjectList.add(myObjectTable.get(keySetNumeration.nextElement())); > } > > //Preparing writer > BufferedWriter theBufferedFileWriter = new BufferedWriter(new > FileWriter("output.xml")); > StringWriter theStringWriter = new StringWriter(); > > //Preparing marshaller > Marshaller m = new Marshaller(); > Mapping mapping = new Mapping(); > mapping.loadMapping("mapping.xml"); > m.setMapping(mapping); > m.setWriter(theStringWriter); > m.setRootElement("rootObject"); > m.marshal(myObjectList); > > //Writing XML file > theBufferedFileWriter.write(theStringWriter.toString()); > theBufferedFileWriter.close(); > theStringWriter.close(); > } catch (Exception e) { > System.err.println(e.getMessage()); > e.printStackTrace(System.err); > } > > So my problem is solved for now :) Okay. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
