[Simple-support] Beta Release 1.2

[Niall G. <gal...@ya...>]

Hi,

With relation to recent comments on improvements and features to be added to the framework I have added the following:

1) A new @Text annotation

This annotation will allow free text to be deserialized from an XML document using structures such as

<element attr1="value1" attr2="value2">
   This is free text
</element>

The
@Text annotation can not be used with the @Element, @ElementList, or
@ElementArray within a single class. Also only one @Text annotation can
be used per class.

2) Loose mappings

The @Root annotation has been given a new attribute called "strict". This is used as follows:

@Root(name="example", strict=false)
public class Example {

   @Element(name="foo")
   private String foo;
}

The above can be used to deserialize something such as:

<example attr1="value1">
   <foo>Example string</foo>
   <ignore attr="blah">Ignore this text</ignore>
</example>

The loose mapping (i.e strict=false) allows the deserialization to ignore some attributes or elements. 

This
has not yet been released as an official version as I am currently
debating whether the strict attribute for the @Root annotation is the
best way to specify  loose mappings. The beta can  be downloaded from :

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/simple/trunk/download/stream/target/1.2-beta/ 
 
Niall Gallagher
 
Niall Gallagher




 
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