Mapping Java fields to attribute and element

[Ben Storey]

Hi,

I am having trouble getting castor to do the following. I have two fields in a java bean, and want to map both fields to one XML element, one being an attribute and the other being content withing the element.

e.g. <Test att="anAttribute">SomeText</Test>

After searching the net I have not been able to get any other answers or examples on how you would do this.

I put together an example.

I have a java bean, like the following.

public class Test implements Serializable {
private String attribute;
private String element;

public Test(){}

public String getAttribute() { return attribute; }

public void setAttribute(String attribute) { this.attribute = attribute; }

public String getElement() { return element; }

public void setElement(String element) { this.element = element; }
}

and a mapping file using the following.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE mapping PUBLIC "-//EXOLAB/Castor Mapping DTD Version 1.0//EN"
"http://castor.org/mapping.dtd">
<mapping>
<class name="play.Test">
<map-to xml="Test"/>
<field name="attribute" type="string">
<bind-xml name="Attribute" node="attribute" location="SomeNode"/>
</field>
<field name="element" type="string">
<bind-xml name="SomeNode" node="element" />
</field>
</class>
</mapping>

The XML that I want to generate is like the following. and it seems I can get just about every other permutation other than that.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Test>
<SomeNode Attribute="anAttribute">anElement</SomeNode>
</Test>

With th given mapping file I am getting out the following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Test>
<SomeNode>anElement</SomeNode>
<SomeNode Attribute="anAttribute"/>
</Test>

I am using castor version 0.9.5.3.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Ben Storey]

I upgraded to 1.0.2 and this problem went away, using the same mapping file.

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