Re: [Simple-support] CycleStrategy and capturing id attributes

[Dawid W. <daw...@gm...>]

Answering myself having peeked at the code: yes, CycleStrategy (or
rather ReadGraph) consume identifiers. I've hacked around by passing a
custom VisitorStrategy delegating to CycleStrategy and cloning the id
attribute inside visitor's read callback to another, shadow attribute.

Works like a charm.

Dawid

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Dawid Weiss <daw...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Niall, everyone,
>
> This caught me by surprise. I use CycleStrategy to deserialize a graph
> of objects (some of which are backrefs to single declarations). So,
> something like this:
>
> <client id="foo">
> </client>
>
> <client id="bar">
> </client>
>
> I would like to capture Client's ID attribute if it was provided explicitly:
>
>     public static class Client {
>         @Attribute(required = false)
>         public String id;
>     }
>
> This doesn't seem to work though (always null). I could use two
> separate identifiers but this will be confusing to whoever is editing
> those files... Thoughts?
>
> Dawid