[Simple-support] reference a field of an instance variable

[Quirino Z. <qu...@la...>]

Hi,
I've been watching the Simple Framework and I found it very useful and
pretty complete.
I looked at tutorials and javadocs and I wondered if it's possible to
serialize only a single field of a complex instance variable. I'll show it
with an example to make it more clear.

public class Class1{
         @Element
         private Class3 class3;

         @Attribute
         private long id;

}


public class Class2{
          //I want to serialize only the id  of the class1 variable, not the
whole state
          @Attribute(name="class1" references=Class1.id)
          private Class1 class1;

}

I'm using Simple to serialize AJAX responses and this feature could be very
useful when you want to show a list of items(i.e. products in e-commerce
apps), but you don't want to load all related data.
Sorry for my English.
Regards



-- 
Quirino Zagarese

LaszloItalia Founder (www.laszloitalia.org)
Software Development Manager - Galilaeus s.r.l. (www.galilaeus.net)