Hi Robert By all means dive in and add comments whereever you think is a good idea. The best way to get a feel for what betwixt can do right now is looking at the JUnit test cases in src/test/*.
I've been a bit side tracked with Messenger and dom4j lately but I'd like to get back to betwixt very soon (a week or so) to do a bean Navigator for Jaxen. Also it'd be interesting to see how easy it would be to use betwixt to generate digester rules from a bean class. Betwixt uses introspection to determine a default XML representation model for a bean (which can be overridden by providing a custom XMLBeanInfo class in the same way as BeanInfo in the Java Beans spec). e.g. Here's the code that given any Class could determine what elements & attributes are available in XML... Class aClass = ...; XMLIntrospector introspector = new XMLIntrospector(); XMLBeanInfo xmlInfo = introspector.introspect( aClass ); // root element XMLElementDescriptor root = xmlInfo.getElementDescriptor(); // attributes of root XMLElementDescriptor[] attributes = root.getAttributeDescriptors(); // child elements XMLElementDescriptor[] elements = root.getElementDescriptors(); Though I must admit that right now betwixt is a little one directional; the ElementDescriptor & AttributeDescriptor take an Expression that when evaluated on a bean will return an object - so its an abstraction on getting a property name, iterating or calling a method etc. This allows a very flexible mappings to occur - such as mapping a Map using the entrySet() method etc. Though this may make it a little harder to write an XML -> Object generator, such as to generate digester rules. James ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert burrell donkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > hi james > > i'm quite keen to take a look at betwixt but the documentation's a bit > sparse. > > i could probably create some documentation patches if you like (since i'll > probably end up writing java doc comments in order to understand it anyway. > ..) > > - robert _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
