[xstream-user] XStream and domain class inheritance question

[Thomas Fuller]

Hi,

I seem to have run into a problem with unmarshalling a domain class using
XStream and I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Let me show you what the
class looks like as this may help:

(I'll do my best to keep this brief)

@XStreamAlias(WB_SOURCE)
public class Source extends IdValuePair {

    @XStreamAlias(WB_NAME)
    @XStreamConverter (ValueAsStringConverter.class)
    private String name = null;

...
}

public class IdValuePair extends IdentityObject {

    @XStreamConverter(ValueAsStringConverter.class)
    private String value = null;

...
}

public class IdentityObject extends DefaultObject
    implements IdentitySpecification<String> {

    @XStreamAlias(ID)
    @XStreamAsAttribute
    private String id = null;

...
}

The problem I'm facing is that the name is unmarshalled properly, however
the value and id are not. If I add a custom source converter, I can achieve
this however I have the feeling that this should not be necessary as
XStream should proces the annotations present on parent classes (and there
appears to be a bug that was fixed several years ago that addressed the
problem I'm talking about now).

Any thoughts on this would be helpful.

Thanks,

Tom