[Simple-support] Simple 2.5

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

Hi,

I have released Simple 2.5. This release contains a set of new annotations.

@Variant
@VariantList
@VariantMap

This allows constructs such as

      @Variant({
         @Element(name="login"),
         @Element(name="account"),
         @Element(name="username"),
         @Element(name="id"),
         @Element(name="name")
      })
      private final String name;

And for lists

      @VariantList({
         @ElementList(entry="double", inline=true, type=DoubleEntry.class),
         @ElementList(entry="text", inline=true, type=StringEntry.class),
         @ElementList(entry="int", inline=true, type=IntegerEntry.class)
      })
      private List<Entry> list;

This allows dynamic serialization of types, matched by type on serialization and on XML element name for deserialization. This also ensures there is no need for class= attributes to determine the type and makes the generated XML more transparent.

Regards,
Niall