What if you changed the class mapping for 'Company' to
<class name="Company" ....>
<map-to name="potential-company"/>
...
</class>
Werner
Urso Wieske wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have followed the HOW-TO instructions about wrapping a collection within a
> wrapper element .by setting the container attribute of the castor field
> element to false.
> Nice!! I am can wrap all occurrences of some type into one single
> collection element in XML :-)
>
> But there is one drawback, unfortunately. I don't have control in the
> element name of one occurrence within a collection wrapper element.
>
> i.e.
>
> public class Company {
>
> //properties, interpret in terms of getter and setter
> name
> street
> }
>
> Castor class mapping:
>
> <class name="Company" ....>
> <map-to name="company"/>
> // mapping for each property (straight forward)
> </class>
>
>
>
> public class MarketWatchDog {
>
> // properties
> List<Company> getCompanies(){...}
>
> }
>
> Castor class mapping for MarketWatchDog:
>
> <class name="MarketWatchDog" ....>
> <map-to name="market-watch-dog" />
> // mapping for each property (straight forward)
> <field name="companies"
> collection="arraylist"
> container="false"
> type="Company">
>
> <bind-xml name="companies" />
> </field>
> </class>
>
>
> When marshalling I get the following XML structure:
>
> ....
> ....
> <market-watch-dog>
> <companies>
> <company>
> <name>Acme</name>
> <street>Penn avenue</street>
> </company>
> <company>
> <name>Minisoft</name>
> <street>Jupiter avenue</street>
> </company>
> </companies>
> </ market-watch-dog>
> ....
> ....
> ....
>
>
> What I want, is to rename the element name "company" to "potential-company".
> Example:
>
> ....
> ....
> <market-watch-dog>
> <companies>
> <potential-company>
> <name>Acme</name>
> <street>Penn avenue</street>
> </potential-company>
> <potential-company>
> <name>Minisoft</name>
> <street>Jupiter avenue</street>
> </potential-company>
> </companies>
> </ market-watch-dog>
> ....
> ....
> ....
>
> Apparantly Castor uses the bind name of the class declared in the field
> element.
> Is there a way to let Castor know I want to use "potential-company" instead
> of "company" as element name for each collection item like the example
> above?
>
> Kind Regards,
> Urso Wieske
>
>
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