Hi Eugen,
Eugen Paraschiv wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running into a strange problem with my XML output; I'm using XStream
> 1.4.2 (and Spring).
> I'm marshalling a List of Role:
> @XmlRootElement
> @XStreamAlias( "role" )
> public class Role{
> @XStreamImplicit
> private Set< Privilege > privileges;
> ...
> }
> the Privilege is even simpler:
>
> @XmlRootElement
> @XStreamAlias( "privilege" )
> public class Privilege {
> private Long id;
> private String name;
> private String description;
> }
> Some of my output looks normal and some looks incorrect:
> <list>
> <role id="2497">
> <name>BcomPIM Admin</name>
> <privilege><id>588</id><name>CatalogViewAdmin</name></privilege>
> <privilege reference="../../role/privilege[3]"/>
> <privilege><id>593</id><name>ContentTypeAdmin</name></privilege>
> </role>
> </list>
>
> The incorrect part is this relative XPath expression:
> <privilege reference="../../role/privilege[3]"/>
>
> All Privilege objects do have names; also, if I'm not retrieving them Role
> objects in a list, but rather a single one - everything works fine.
> Any idea would could be causing the addition of the reference in the
> output? Is this a known issue, or perhaps something I need to tweak? Can
> it be because of the many to many association between Role and Privilege?
> Any help is appreciated.
This is normal if the *same* object appears twice in the object graph, see
http://xstream.codehaus.org/graphs.html. The article also explains the
alternatives and consequences.
Cheers,
Jörg
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