Re: [Simple-support] Deserialization of type Calendar?

[<Nia...@ub...>]

Hi, 

Yes, this will be fixed very soon in the next version, it is a bug at
the moment. Unfortunately it is something I did not spot until recently.

Niall


-----Original Message-----
From: Timo Rumland [mailto:cr...@ol...] 
Sent: 01 October 2008 17:34
To: sim...@li...
Cc: Gallagher, Niall-N
Subject: Re: [Simple-support] Deserialization of type Calendar?

Hello,

> Well, you could change the PackageMatcher so that if it's a Calendar 
> then it converts to a GregorianCalendar (but this means that if the 
> field is Calendar then it will always be a GregorianCalendar).

this is really bad news for me. Now I must change all those domain model
classes to use GregorianCalendar. And not only this, but every single
line that sets the Calendar by using

  someObject.setTime(Calendar.getInstance());

must now have a cast to GregorianCalendar :-/


> The reason this does not work with class= is because non-annotated 
> types go straight to the Transformer.

But what is the real reason behind the scenes? Unfortunately, I don't
know much about the internals of the Simple Framework, but isn't it a
possible enhancement to let Simple look at the "class=" attribute and
then delegate to the correct Transformer? Are you going to have that
"fixed" for a future release, or is this behavior inteded and will not
be changed?

I still don't understand the difference why this works with a List
interface (e.g.: List< String > as the member and ArrayList< String > as
the concrete type with "class=java.util.ArrayList" attribute in the XML
code), since "List" is also non-annotated.


Thanks a lot for all the information


Best regards,
Timo Rumland

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