Re: [Simple-support] null variables and suppressing empty tags

[Erez L. <er...@es...>]

Thanks!  I was also thinking about plugging in a different/custom serializer
here:
 private static final Serializer serializer = new Persister(new
AnnotationStrategy());

Does this make any sense or am I barking up the wrong tree?

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Niall Gallagher
<gal...@ya...>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think for this a change is required. Currently the @Path is required
> regardless of whether the elements are null or not.
>
> I will take a look at adding something like this.
>
> Niall
>
>
> --- On *Wed, 21/9/11, Erez Lirov <er...@es...>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Erez Lirov <er...@es...>
> Subject: Re: [Simple-support] null variables and suppressing empty tags
> To: "Niall Gallagher" <gal...@ya...>
> Cc: "James Oltmans" <Jam...@ip...>, "
> sim...@li..." <
> sim...@li...>
> Received: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 6:10 AM
>
>
> Oops.  I'm sorry.  That was supposed to be @Path("To")  I think I was
> switching things out while testing and copying.  Here's the current copy of
> the code.  I just executed and it produced:
> <ContinuityOfCareRecord>
>    <To/>
> </ContinuityOfCareRecord>
>
> ---------------
>
> import org.junit.Before;
> import org.junit.Test;
> import org.simpleframework.xml.Element;
> import org.simpleframework.xml.Path;
> import org.simpleframework.xml.Root;
>
> import com.espoc.vrclcommon.util.XmlUtil;
>
> public class CcrTest {
>
>   @Root(name = "ContinuityOfCareRecord")
>   static class Test1 {
>     @Element(name = "ActorLink", required = false)
>     @Path("To")
>     protected CcrDocActorLink toLink;
>   }
>
>   @Before
>   public void setUp() throws Exception {
>   }
>
>   @Test
>   public void test() throws Exception {
>     // CcrDoc doc = sample();
>     Test1 doc = new Test1();
>     System.out.println(XmlUtil.getAsString(doc));
>   }
> }
>
> public class XmlUtil {
>   private static final Serializer serializer = new Persister(new
> AnnotationStrategy());
>
>   public static String getAsString(Object obj) throws Exception {
>     ByteArrayOutputStream b = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>     serializer.write(obj, b);
>     return b.toString();
>   }
> }
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Niall Gallagher <
> gal...@ya... <http://mc/compose?to=...@ya...>
> > wrote:
>
> The below annotated class will not generate the XML you provided. Can you
> provide a proper example of what you are doing.
>
> --- On *Tue, 20/9/11, Erez Lirov <er...@es...<http://mc/compose?to...@es...>
> >* wrote:
>
>
> From: Erez Lirov <er...@es... <http://mc/compose?to...@es...>>
> Subject: Re: [Simple-support] null variables and suppressing empty tags
> To: "James Oltmans" <Jam...@ip...<http://mc/compose?to=...@ip...>
> >
> Cc: "sim...@li...<http://mc/compose?to=...@li...>"
> <sim...@li...<http://mc/compose?to=...@li...>
> >
> Received: Tuesday, 20 September, 2011, 12:05 PM
>
>
> Doesn't look like the @Path annotation accepts required=false.  It looks
> like @Path only accepts one parameter, the path string...
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, James Oltmans <Jam...@ip...<http://mc/compose?to=...@ip...>
> > wrote:
>
> Set required = false for the To element****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Erez Lirov [mailto:er...@es...<http://mc/compose?to...@es...>]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:25 AM
> *To:* sim...@li...<http://mc/compose?to=...@li...>
> *Subject:* [Simple-support] null variables and suppressing empty tags****
>
> ** **
>
> I have an annotated class that has a null field like this:****
>
> ** **
>
> @Root(name = "ContinuityOfCareRecord")****
>
> class Test1 {****
>
>   @Element(name = "ActorID", required = false)****
>
>   @Path("Patient")****
>
>   protected String patientId;****
>
> }****
>
> ** **
>
> generating the XML gives:****
>
> <ContinuityOfCareRecord>****
>
>    <To/>****
>
> </ContinuityOfCareRecord>****
>
> ** **
>
> Is there any way to automatically suppress the <To/> tag since there are no
> values under it?****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks!****
>
>
>
>
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