Re: [Simple-support] Simple 2.6.7 doesn't handle enums in the same way as Simple 2.6 does?

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

Interesting, I will take a look at this. I have never annotated an enum in this way, however I do not see a problem with processing enums in this manner if there is an @Root annotation on it. I am sure this is just a minor change, ill be releasing a new version soon, if its reasonable to do so Ill add back support for serializing enums in this way.

From: Kiran Rao [mailto:tec...@gm...]
Sent: Monday, 26 November 2012 9:38 PM
To: sim...@li...
Subject: [Simple-support] Simple 2.6.7 doesn't handle enums in the same way as Simple 2.6 does?

Consider the following enun:

@Root(name="days")
public enum DaysOfWeek {

    SUNDAY("blue", 30),
    MONDAY("green", 60),
    TUESDAY("yellow", 50),
    WEDNESDAY("red", 45),
    THURSDAY("black", 45),
    FRIDAY("white", 65),
    SATURDAY("brown", 40);

    @Attribute(name="color")
    private String color;

    @Element(name="mins")
    private int minutes;


    DaysOfWeek(String color, int minutes){
        this.color = color;
        this.minutes = minutes;
    }

    DaysOfWeek(){
        /*
         * Default constructor
         */
    }

    public void setColor(String color){
        this.color = color;
    }

    public void setMinutes(int minutes){
        this.minutes = minutes;
    }

    public String getColor(){
        return this.color;

    }

    public int getMinutes(){
        return this.minutes;
    }
}


And, the code to serialize it:

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        try {
            serializer.write(DaysOfWeek.TUESDAY, writer);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        System.out.println(writer.toString());

With simple-2.6, I see this output - which is what I expect:

<days color="yellow">
   <mins>50</mins>
</days>


However, the *same* code, when serialized with simple-2.6.7, gives this:
<daysOfWeek>TUESDAY</daysOfWeek>

Basically, in simple-2.6.7, the individual members of an enum (and the simple-xml annotations on them) are ignored and always the name of the enum constant is used for serialization.

Is this intended? How do I get the latest version of simple-xml to serialize an enum while taking the individual members of the enum into consideration?



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