[Simple-support] how to have a link to the parent

[Benoît P. <ben...@un...>]

Hi there!

first of all thanks ... it's so simple! so simple that when I hit  
something, I can't help myself from thinking I've misread the doc. But  
after having read it twice, I still have this problem :

I'm working on a simulation toolkit, companion of a multi-agent  
communication system.
the toolkit involves configuring complex scenarios with xml.

the structure of those config XML files looks like :

simulation
. platform
. . agent
. . . argument
. . agent
. . agent
. population
. . actor
. . . profile
. . . agent
. . . . type
. . . . classname
. . . agent
. scenario
. . phase
. . . agent
. . . action
. . phase

...you get the picture

I successfully can deserialize this structure into a structure of  
corresponding objects, and the id-ref mechanism works like a charm.

But I surely would need that AN OBJECT MAY ACCESS ITS PARENT in this  
object hierarchy.

I naively though there'd be a @Parent annotation one may apply to a  
field (of type Object) to automatize linking to parent, but this don't  
exist.

I could I generalize this linking to the parent object at  
deserialization time ?

thanks,
b.