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

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

I ran some more tests and sure enough it is working as designed.  Must  
have been "developer fatigue" messing with my brain.  Apologies for  
the confusion.

thanks,

-kevin


On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Niall Gallagher wrote:

> Hi
>
> Is the value an empty string? If it is then it will
> come out with the elements. If this still does not
> work then send me code that shows this, perhaps in the
> form of a unit test. I find it unlikely that this is
> an bug in the framework as this is very well tested.
>
> Niall
>
> --- Kevin Johnson <kjo...@in...> wrote:
>
>> 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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