[Simple-support] @ElementMap can't deserialize repetitive custom typed inline elements

[Stumpf, J. T. <Tho...@st...>]

Hi!

I tried a lot of different annotations following the tutorials but none of it was able to deserialize the following given structure (correctly):

<document>
...
  <media>
    <image id="media-1" src="img.png" name="Arthur Spooner" title="img one">my car</image>
    <image id="media-2" src="img2.png" name="Arthur Spooner" title="img two">a better image of my car</image>
    <image id="media-3" src="img3.png" name="Poison Ivy" title="img three">awesome flower</image>
    <video id="video-1" src="mov1.mpg" name="Rohrschach" title="cool movie">man running in circles</video>
  </media>
...

Image and Video class simply implement all attributes and Elements.

I tried, similar as shown in the tutorials, within class document

@ElementMap(inline=true,entry="image",key="id",attribute=true) 
@Path("media") 
Map<String, Image> images; 

@ElementMap(inline=true,entry="video",key="id",attribute=true) 
@Path("media") 
Map<String, Video> videos;

Because this seemed to be problematic because of the mixed content I created an own class Media.

(Question: How could this issue be solved with @Union? The combination of Union and ElementMap annotation seems not to work) 

Within Media class I tried

@ElementMap(inline=true,entry="image",key="id",attribute=true) 
Map<String, Image> images;

...not further going to mention video, it's basically the same...

And I tried 

@ElementMap(inline=true,key="id",attribute=true) 
Map<String, Image> images;

and 

@ElementMap(inline=true,value="image",key="id",attribute=true) 
Map<String, Image> images;

as well as

@ElementMap(entry="image",key="id",attribute=true) 
Map<String, Image> images;

and so on.

None of them worked as intended.

How can I generate a map of images, videos, you-name-it elements with the attribute id as key?
In fact I would like to get a sortable/navigable Map, e.g. TreeMap, and it would be good not to be forced to implement a Media class.

Can anybody help?
I most probably miss something.

For the time being I implemented it as Dictionary - the drawback is the name clash of the attributes and the methods.

I appreciate any input!
Thx in advance 

Jens