[Simple-support] Serializing/ deserializing List<Object> containing objects of different types

[Stanislaw O. <sta...@ca...>]

Hello,

First of all, thanks for the great piece of software, it simplifies things a
lot!

I'm not yet an advanced user of Simple XML, hence a possibly silly question.
The following code:

@Root
public class SimpleTest
{
    @ElementList
    private List<Object> test = new ArrayList<Object>();

    public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception
    {
        SimpleTest test = new SimpleTest();
        test.test.add(10);
        test.test.add(0.5);
        test.test.add("string");

        Persister persister = new Persister();
        persister.write(test, System.out);
    }
}

produces something like this on output:

<simpleTest>
   <test class="java.util.ArrayList">
      <object class="java.lang.Integer"/>
      <object class="java.lang.Double"/>
      <object class="java.lang.String"/>
   </test>
</simpleTest>


Clearly, the information on output is incomplete to deserialize the object
successfully.

Question: can I (how?) serialize/ deserialize Lists and Maps containing
objects of different types as values?

Cheers,

Staszek