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

[Kevin J. <kjo...@in...>]

thanks - i tried that, but didn't seem to work - it still inserts the  
given field's element, just with an empty value.

-kevin

On Apr 21, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Benoît Pointet wrote:

> 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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