RE: Bean Serializer/ Deserializer

[Mike DuVall]

Thanks for the info, Paul.  I actually did figure that out this morning 
through trial and error.  Being able to specify the makeup of the bean via 
BeanInfo looks to be a very nice way of solving several problems that I am 
having.  One problem in particular is that we have several classes that have 
'char's as properties, and axis seems to choke on those.  What I did to 
solve this is create an additional getter/setter pair for the char property 
that takes a String instead of a char, and converts back in forth between 
the char and the string.  Then I created a BeanInfo that says to use the 
String getter/setter rather than the char getter/setter for that attribute.  
Works very nicely.  (We could also just convert the char to string outright, 
but this saves us from having to change a lot of code that depends on the 
existing interface).







----Original Message Follows----
From: "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Bean Serializer/ Deserializer
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:24:27 -0500
They use the reflection package. If you implement BeanInfo classes you
can control precisely what gets serialized/deserialized. Look in the
java.beans package for more info.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike DuVall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bean Serializer/ Deserializer
>
>
> I have a question about how the built in BeanSerializer and
> BeanDeserializer
> determines what getters and setters to call.
>
> Do these classes just call every getter and setter on an a
> bean, or do they
> first look for data fields in the object, and then look for
> getters and
> setters that correspond to those data fields?  I'm guessing
> they just look
> for getters and setters regardless of what data fields may exist.
>
> Also, is there some way to have the
> BeanSerializer/Desserializer ignore
> certain getters/setters?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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