On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/6/10 6:00 PM, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot wrote: >> >> On 6 déc. 2010, at 17:32, Alex Karasulu wrote: >>> >>> Also as Kiran pointed out in his response, what if the contained elements >>> are kept in a single attribute like this ads-compositeElement ? >> >> AFAIR, the 'ads-compositeElement' was introduced as kind of "quick hack" >> to ease the work on the reader class. I really think we can get rid of it >> easily with the annotation system. > > ads-compositeElement has been created at the origin as a way to tell the > reader that the element is a composite element. The reader was supposed to > be completely generic, ie the java Beans could have been generated > automatically (except that because it requires the development of a maven > plugin, something I didn't want to do). > > Now that you have defined some @, sure this is redondant, but if someone > decide to define a reader/writer in another language, then this element is > probably necessary. > +1, I liked this idea, who knows may be we write a Qt based native app :) > It will just be an annoyance for people who will use @ instead, and forgot > to add this ads-compositeElement AT in the entries that need it. I wouls > suggest that you relax the writer/reader to take care of this case if an @ > is used instead. > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > >
-- Kiran Ayyagari
