Re: [Simple-support] How "not" to serialize nulls

[Benoît P. <ben...@un...>]

according to the tutorial

(http://simple.sourceforge.net/download/stream/doc/tutorial/tutorial.php#optional 
)

try setting the element as optional, i.e.

> class foo {
>      @Element(required=false)
>      private String bar;
> }


b.

On 22 avr. 08, at 07:48, Kevin Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When serializing an object that has a null data member, the resulting
> xml has an empty element in it.  Is there a way to avoid this?
>
> For example:
>
> class foo {
>      @Element
>      private String bar;
> }
>
>
> if "bar" has a value of "2", the xml will look like this:
>
> <foo>
> 	<bar>2</bar>
> </foo>
>
> but if "bar" has a value of NULL, the xml will look like this:
>
> <foo>
> 	<bar></bar>
> </foo>
>
> Where I would prefer:
>
> <foo>
> </foo>
>
> Is this possible?
>
> thanks,
>
> -kevin
>
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