Okay, I think that's enough context for me to suggest a few things. Top of my head, I think a good starting point should be to analyze the createClassDescriptor() method of the XMLMappingLoader class to see where additional log statements could be inserted.
In particular, have a look at line 182ff and 292f where the auto-complete attribute of a ClassMapping instance is being considered to decide how to go about descriptor creation (from a mapping, ...). I am more than willing to help you with any problems related to understand the code base. Regards Werner jimmi4664 wrote: > I have a working mapping right now. Mapping of some classes and attributes is > defined manually in the mapping xml file. Some parts of the mapping are > auto-completed by castor. It all works perfectly. > > Now I want to define the parts castor auto-completes manually. This is > because I would like to define each persisted class and it's attributes > explicitly. I use castor mapping to basically create a "save file" of some > of my classes. By defining all the mapping manually, I can 1) document which > fields are stored in the savefile, and how and 2) protect against old > savefiles getting broken when when I for example refactor the name of one > attribute. > > Recreating the auto-completed is a bit time consuming and error prone. Some > eg. collection mappings that work when castor auto-completes the mapping, > seem to be a bit difficult to create by hand and figuring out where > (un)marshalling failed takes time. That's why it would have been nice to see > which kind of mapping castor automatically created and copy from that. > > > > Werner Guttmann-6 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't think the current code base has support for this feature. Whilst >> it could be added in theory, one has to keep in mind that a mapping file >> is just one way of defining a binding between your Java classes and the >> corresponding XML documents. >> >> Internally, Castor XML (as well as JDO) uses descriptor classes to >> establish exactly that binding information, And afair there's some >> debugging output related to establishing what descriptor(s) is being >> used during unmarshalling. >> >> So how about defining what you are looking for once again - keeping in >> mind what I have just said. >> >> Cheers >> Werner >> >> jimmi4664 wrote: >>> I define my XML mapping in a mapping file castor-mapping.xml. Some >>> classes >>> use Castor's automatically created mapping with auto-complete="true" for >>> some or all fields, and some classes are fully configured in the file >>> with >>> <class name="foo" auto-complete="false"/> >>> >>> I want to change all classes to have auto-complete="false", so that I >>> don't >>> run into problems if I rename some fields and can better control what >>> fields >>> are mapped and what not. >>> >>> Can I get Castor to print out the actual mapping it generates based on >>> the >>> given mapping file? I have activated debug logging but that info does not >>> seem to be logged. >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
