oops... its BeanDeserializer that throws the exception. The serializer seems to work fine.
Vikram Rayabhari wrote: > I have a property in a bean that is declared as > > private MyInterface intf; > > This property is always null and will never change in my application. > Currently the BeanSerializer is very strict ie it expects a type > mapping for MyInterface even though the value is null. This means that > I will have to write a dummy class which implements MyInterface, and > then add a mapping for this. > > Could the BeanSerializer be changed so that it takes care of > serializing null properties(just like it does for primitives) and > throws an exception only when a non-null property has no mapping > registered for it? > > Vikram
