Which is what I should have suggested as a work-around anyhow. Can yo still raise a new Jira issue at http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR for this.
Regards Werner Mihir Mathuria wrote: > > Yes. You are right. Looks like this is an issue with mutivalued fields > used with location attribute. > > So, I was able to make things work by declaring a dedicated class for > each element type node. That is, in the above example, declaring a class > Category for the <category> element. > > So the earlier XML changed to: > > > ---snippet--- > <field name="categories" collection="arraylist" type="mypackage.Category"> > <bind-xml name="category" location="categories"/> > </field> > > <class name="mypackage.Category"> > <field name="label" type="string"> > <bind-xml name="label" node="attribute"/> > </field> > </class> > ----snippet--- > > --Mihir > > > On Jun 3, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Werner Guttmann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am not actually convinced that this is an issue related to whitespace >> handling at all. I think that this is an issue in the context of >> multi-valued fields when used together with locations. >> >> Anyhow, to be able to look into this, can I please ask you create a new >> Jira issue at >> >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR >> >> and attach a (minimal) working test case. >> >> Regards >> Werner >> >> Mihir Mathuria wrote: >>> >>> Hello Gurus, >>> >>> Need your help regarding unmarshalling and whitespaces. >>> >>> I spent quite some time on this issue and tried following advices in >>> earlier posts, but in vain. >>> >>> I have the following xml: >>> >>> <categories> >>> <category label='Male Female'/> >>> <category label='Sports'/> >>> </categories> >>> >>> >>> I try to unmarshal that using the following mappings: >>> >>> <field name="columnHeaders" collection="arraylist" type="string"> >>> <bind-xml name="label" location="categories/category" >>> node="attribute"/> >>> </field> >>> >>> However the columnHeaders arrayList comes up with 3 elements ['Male', >>> 'Female', 'Sports'] instead of just two ['Male Female','Sports'] >>> >>> >>> After the creating the Unmarshaller I do make sure preserveWhitespace >>> is set to 'true' >>> unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller(); >>> unmarshaller.setWhitespacePreserve(true); >>> >>> But this does not help. >>> >>> I also tried adding "xml:space='preserve'" in the <category> node above. >>> No luck. >>> >>> I am running out of ideas. Some one please guide. >>> >>> I am using castor 1.3 >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Mihir. >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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
