[Simple-support] Dynamic object type determination

[Lumsdon, H. <Hug...@bl...>]

Hi,

Very new to the Simple framework, but curious as to whether there is an
easy way to dynamically determine the object type that we're
de-serializing from the XML file itself without having to specify it in
advance as an argument to the Serializer.   i.e. the object type would
be determined from the top-level XML element name.

Basically in many cases we're not expecting to have to manipulate
objects within our Java code - but purely pass them to a view (e.g.
Freemarker) so it can pull back specific bean properties using
introspection as normal.   We're using Spring MVC - and it just means we
can use a generic controller in many circumtances to read in the
relevant content XML object and just hand off to the required view.

I guess this is a bit like the functionality the @Union annotation
provides, but that's obviously a level down so we'd have to wrap
everything.  Maybe that is the best solution here, but just exploring
options.

Thanks.








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