Re: [Simple-support] Simple 2.5

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

Hi,

Correction, these annotations have been renamed in 2.5 as

@Union
@UnionList
@UnionMap

Niall

--- On Fri, 8/4/11, Niall Gallagher <gal...@ya...> wrote:

> From: Niall Gallagher <gal...@ya...>
> Subject: Simple 2.5
> To: sim...@li...
> Received: Friday, 8 April, 2011, 8:05 AM
> 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
>