Re: [Simple-support] Class type, jar size

[Niall G. <gal...@ya...>]

Hi,

Yes there is a way to send the type, the Strategy object was implemented for just this. If you use the org.simpleframework.xml.load.DefaultStrategy you can modify it to send the class= parameter for each type. If you want to go even further you can implement your own Strategy perhaps based on the provided DefaultStrategy to send something other than the class, for instance you could map the class name to a code, for instance.

com.domain.Person="person"
com.domain.Address="address"

And so on. As for a stripped down version, there is none. However if you use Java 1.6 the XML serialization framework has no dependencies. So no external tool which many other frameworks require.

Hope this helps
Niall

--- On Fri, 6/6/08, Mark Wyszomierski <ma...@gm...> wrote:

> From: Mark Wyszomierski <ma...@gm...>
> Subject: [Simple-support] Class type, jar size
> To: sim...@li...
> Date: Friday, June 6, 2008, 4:12 AM
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been looking for a fast lightweight java xml
> serializer for a few
> days, just came across Simple, it looks great. I especially
> like the
> compact xml it can produce, since I'm going to be using
> it for string
> message passing across a network.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a quick way to query the
> class type
> serialized in a String, for example, I serialized a class
> called
> Person:
> 
>     <person a="Bob" b="55">
> 
> now I receive that string over the net, and I need to
> figure out what
> kind of class is serialized in it. Is there some facility
> in Simple
> for doing that, or should I prepend some header myself?
> 
> Also, the Simple library is ~180k - is there some stripped
> down
> version which makes a smaller jar by any chance?
> 
> Thanks for the great tool,
> Mark
> 
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