[Simple-support] Deserializing Map<String, NotPrimitiveType> with "Simple XML"

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Hi, 
 
Is it possible to deserialize Map&lt;String, MyType&gt; with Simple
xml? How can I do that? 
 
I checked examples section but it contains example only for
Map&lt;String, SomePrimitiveType&gt;. 
 
I tried to do it myself: 
 
Java classes: 
 
@Root 
public class Content { 
 
    @ElementMap(entry="page", key="id", attribute=true, inline=true) 
    //@ElementMap(entry="page", key="id", attribute=true, inline=true,
valueType=net.edyoucare.krisenkompass.Page.class) 
    public HashMap&lt;String, Page&gt; pages; 
    
} 
 
@Root 
public class Page { 
    
    @Attribute 
    private String id; 
    
    @Attribute 
    private String layout; 
 
} 
 
Xml: 
 
&lt;?xml version="1.0" ?&gt; 
&lt;content&gt;  
  
  &lt;page id="root" layout="text_with_pdf_link"&gt;test&lt;/page&gt; 
  &lt;page id="root2" layout="text_with_pdf_link"&gt;test&lt;/page&gt; 
 
&lt;/content&gt; 
 
Deserializing code: 
 
Serializer serializer = new Persister(); 
Content result = serializer.read(Content.class, br); 
 
The code above runs without any exceptions. It produces Content
instance with a map which has two entries with correct keys. But these
keys are map to the null values :( 
So the map in Content.pages field looks like {root=null, root2=null}. 
 
I don't have any ideas how to force it to create Page object, and map
the keys with that object. 
 
Thanks, 
Dzmitry 
 
 
 
 
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