Castor documentation states that if you don't have a noarg constructor which castor requires, it's no problem since you can create a custom fieldhandler with correct public Object newInstance(Object parent), which instantiates your object.
http://www.castor.org/reference/html/XML%20data%20binding.html I have this need as my class does not have a public noarg constructor. 1) OK, I can implement GeneralizedFieldHandler, but what if I don't want to touch convertUponSet/Get. For example my noarg Color class would not be marshalled into simple: <color>blue</color> and would instead be for example <color> <red>FF</red> <green>FF</green> <blue>FF</blue> <alpha>FF</alpha> </color> and I don't want to implement to to parse / create the XML 2) How is this usable if I have a collection of fields (colors)? I tried adding custom field handler to a collection like: <field name="color" type="mytest.Color" collection="collection" handler="ColorHandler"> <bind-xml name="colors" node="element" /> </field> but it had no effect Or is this GeneralizedFieldHandler approach only applicable when using simple fields that are mapped to strings? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/No-constructor%2C-no-problem--tp26337595p26337595.html Sent from the Castor - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
