[Simple-support] Deserializing inherited objects from XML

[Tek W. <tek...@gm...>]

I need this work with this type of XML

 <component class="com.abc.Container" type="Container" >
 <component class="com.abc.Label" type="Label" name="Label201"/>
 <component class="com.abc.Button" type="Button" name="Button202"/>

My class structure is:

@Root(name = "component")
public class com.abc.BaseComponent {
    @ElementList(inline = true,required=false)
    ArrayList<BaseComponent> childComponents = null;

}

and
@Root(name = "component")
public class Button extends BaseComponent {

    Button() {
        super();
    }
}

@Root(name = "component")
public class Label extends BaseComponent {

    Label() {
        super();
    }
}

@Root(name = "component")
public class Container extends BaseComponent {

    Container () {
        super();
    }
}
So the logic is that the Container can add any other object as long as it
is of BaseComponent type.


On serialization, I do get the desired XML, however I can not deserialize
it back from XML to Objects.
I tried to use @ElementListUnion with listing of each BaseComponent type in
it, that changes the XML structure.  Its almost like the format that I need
to support is using attributes and simplexml like to use elements.

Regards