Re: [Simple-support] ElementMap question

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

Hi,

It just happens that the default name for a value that has given no @Root is "value". The value is serialized as an independent component, your key which is a primitive serializes as an attribute of the entry. Glad it works for you now.

Niall


--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Micah Jaffe <mi...@af...> wrote:

> From: Micah Jaffe <mi...@af...>
> Subject: Re: [Simple-support] ElementMap question
> To: gal...@ya...
> Cc: sim...@li...
> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 11:57 AM
> Thanks for responding!  So I stumbled on a solution nearly
> the same as  
> what you suggested.  In my below example, I separated out
> the value of  
> the text into a value tag just as you suggested, but kept
> everything  
> else the same.  And the code suddenly started working (for
> reasons I  
> don't understand).  I didn't have to create a list
> to put values into  
> a map.  This was my new XML, code is still the same:
> 
> <foo level="0">
> <value attr1="abc">value1</value>
> </foo>
> <foo level="1">
> <value attr2="xyz">value2</value>
> </foo>
> <foo level="3">
> <value attr1="123">value3</value>
> </foo>
> 
> What is confusing to me on why this is working is I
> didn't create an  
> annotation to look for the tag "value".  Does
> ElementMap do some  
> shortcutting to look for "value" tags for you?
> 
> -Micah
> 
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Niall Gallagher wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have a look at the Dictionary class in
> org.simpleframework.xml.util.  
> > This looks like what you want. In order to use
> attributes in the  
> > value it has to be a sub-element of the entry and can
> not go in the  
> > entry element. For example:
> >
> > <entry key="key>
> >   <value a="a" b="b"
> c="c"/>
> > </entry>
> >
> > In order to get a flat list you will need to use an
> ElementList. The  
> > Dictionary (which is a HashSet) object can make use of
> an attribute  
> > to do this. It has a get() method. If you want you can
> use an  
> > ElementList and transfer this via some key to a map
> using the  
> > @Commit annotation like so.
> >
> >
> > public class MyClass {
> >
> >  @ElementList(inline=true)
> >  private List<Foo> list;
> >  private Map<Integer, Foo> map;
> >
> >  @Commit
> >  private void commit() {
> >     for(Foo foo : list) {
> >        map.put(foo.level, foo);
> >     }
> >  }
> > }
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Niall
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 6/23/08, Micah Jaffe
> <mi...@af...> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Micah Jaffe
> <mi...@af...>
> >> Subject: [Simple-support] ElementMap question
> >> To: sim...@li...
> >> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 2:37 PM
> >> I have an ElementMap that I'm declaring as
> such:
> >>
> >> @ElementMap(entry="foo",
> key="level",
> >> attribute=true, inline=true)
> >> private HashMap<Integer, Foo> map = new
> >> HashMap<Integer, Foo>();
> >>
> >> private static class Foo
> >> {
> >>     @Attribute(required=false)
> >>     private String attr1;
> >>
> >>     @Attribute(required=false)
> >>     private String attr2;
> >>
> >>     @Text
> >>     private String value;
> >> }
> >>
> >> The goal would be to be able to read XML like
> this:
> >>
> >> <foo level="0"
> >> attr1="abc">value1</foo>
> >> <foo level="1"
> >> attr2="xyz">value2</foo>
> >> <foo level="3"
> >> attr1="123">value3</foo>
> >>
> >> When testing the code it seems to pull out the key
> >> information
> >> correctly, but is setting every value of Foo in
> the HashMap
> >> to null.
> >> The goal is to be able to retrieve an object from
> this map
> >> that will
> >> always be keyed off "level", and have N
> number of
> >> attributes (meta
> >> data) which are optional, and only a single value.
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> -Micah
> >>
> >>
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