Re: XMLEncoder/XMLDecoder Beta 2

From: Kevin Menard (nirvdru..egativetwenty.net)
Date: Tue Dec 21 2004 - 12:47:23 EST

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    Hi Andrus,

    Any comment on this? 

    --
Kevin

    On Dec 16, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Kevin Menard wrote:
>
>>
>> You mean XML encoding map, not Cayenne DataMap? No, Cayenne doesn't 
>> have
>> any support for that. IIRC our latest agreement was to keep WebObjects
>> format for the XML map. Am I talking about the same thing?
>>
>
> Sorry for the ambiguity.  I meant java.util.Map.  XMLEncoder currently 
> has:
>
>     /**
>      * Utility method that prints all map values,
>      * assuming they are XMLSerializable objects.
>      */
>     public void print(Map map) {
>         Iterator it = map.entrySet().iterator();
>         while (it.hasNext()) {
>             Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) it.next();
>             ((XMLSerializable) entry.getValue()).encodeAsXML(this);
>         }
>     }
>
> I wanted to provide an analog using JDOM, thus my encodeMap().  The 
> problem is that during decoding, I can't reconstruct the above map 
> because I don't know what the keys are.  Likewise, I don't know when 
> Cayenne would ever create a map like this, so I was asking if it was 
> just legacy code.

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