Hi Nresh,
My personal experience is that I needed a wrapper class to have our complete
"working memory" marshalled+unmarshalled. Butthere might be some other way.
And according to the castor documentation the references should be mapped as
node="attribute".
regards,
Peter
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> Von: Naresh Bhatia[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Antwort an: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003 09:41
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Re: [castor-dev] Problem with collection of references
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Sorry, I am bit slow in understanding your answer. What I have is a
> many-to-many relationship between Calendars and Meetings. So a Calendar
> can have many Meetings on it and a Meeting can be on many Calendars.
> Assume I have the follows Calendar and Meeting instances in memory:
>
> C1--M1
> \/
> /\
> C2--M2
>
> So I expect to see something like this in the XML output:
>
> <root>
>
> <calendars>
> <calendar calendar-id="C1">
> <meeting-ref meeting-id="M1"/>
> <meeting-ref meeting-id="M2"/>
> </calendar>
> <calendar calendar-id="C2">
> <meeting-ref meeting-id="M1"/>
> <meeting-ref meeting-id="M2"/>
> </calendar>
> </calendars>
>
> <meeting meeting-id="M1" .../>
> <meeting meeting-id="M2" .../>
>
> </root>
>
> Is this an unreasonable expectation? What I am marshalling is a
> "Calendars" object which contains a list of calendars, and these
> calendars have references to (shared) meetings. Should I instead
> Marshall another wrapper object that has contains the calendars and the
> meetings? The closest I have come to the XML output shown above is by
> specifying:
>
> <field name="meetings" type="Meeting" collection="array">
> <bind-xml name="meeting-ref" node="element" reference="true"/>
> </field>
>
> This gives me
>
> <calendars>
> <calendar calendar-id="C1">
> <meeting-ref>M1</meeting-ref>
> <meeting-ref>M2</meeting-ref>
> </calendar>
> <calendar calendar-id="C2">
> <meeting-ref>M1</meeting-ref>
> <meeting-ref>M2</meeting-ref>
> </calendar>
> </calendars>
>
> Note that:
> 1) meetingIds come in as text of the <meeting-ref> element. If I specify
> node="attribute", I get
> <calendar calendar-id="C1" meeting-ref="M1 M2">
> This is similar to what you indicated below. Is this how collections
> of references should be?
>
> 2) Meetings are not marshalled at all. I guess, I need to marshall a
> wrapper object that contains
> the calendars as well as the meeting objects.
>
> Please let me know how to proceed. Thanks for your help.
> Naresh
>
>
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