Re: [Simple-support] erialize/deserialize Lists with empty Strings

[Joe <fis...@ya...>]

Hi, 

> Your suggestion should work fine.

an optimisation is to encode only empty strings and strings starting 
with the encoding prefix character.

<testData>
   <_values class="java.util.Arrays$ArrayList">
     <string>A</string> -> normal text
     <string></string> -> null
     <string>*</string> -> empty
     <string>**</string> -> *
   </_values>
</testData> 

For better readabilty a <SPACE> could be used.
>  I think there may be another
> alternative using a strategy, so that you could have.
>
> <testData>
>    <_values class="java.util.Arrays$ArrayList">
>       <string>A</string>
>       <string null="false"></string>
>       <string null="true"></string>
>    </_values>
> </testData> 
>
> This would basically involve adding an attribute to all elements where
> the value to be written is null. Don't know if deserialization would
> respect this though so I would have to investigate. 
i like it, even more readable.