Re: [Simple-support] Empty Primitive Arrays

[Niall G. - Y. <Nia...@yi...>]

The problem with nulls is representing it in XML, is <tag></tag> null or “”, if I could distinguish from </tag> and <tag></tag> things would be easy, bit its not possible with StAX, DOM, or XmlPull. So the empty= attribute is required.

From: Robin Drew [mailto:rob...@gm...]
Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 2:18 AM
To: sim...@li...
Subject: [Simple-support] Empty Primitive Arrays

Hi,

As a follow up from the previous mail - I do note the "empty" attribute for the annotation allows for empty array de-serialization, so mostly my previous can be disregarded. I would however ask why this is not defaulted for those common types for which there is clearly no ambiguity as to whether it is an empty array such as int[] etc.

Cheers,

Robin