6 Replies Latest reply on Jun 22, 2005 9:19 AM by dimitris

    Mapping comments?

    dimitris
    dimitris May 26, 2005 1:26 PM

      Wouldn't it make sense to be able to map also the comments from an xml file to a POJO model, as well? (and the reverse)

      From a deployment point of view, this would allow reading, modifiying and writing back an existing descriptor (e.g. xxx-service.xml) without destroying completely it's content (alhtough its formating for sure).

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        • 1. Re: Mapping comments?
          starksm64
          starksm64 Jun 21, 2005 12:43 PM (in response to dimitris)

          Without javadoc annotations (which are scheduled for java6), I don't see how this can be done in general as we have no requirement for source code creation. I don't see that the current jaxb2.0 spec (Early Draft 2
          Tuesday, March 15, 2005) has any annotation for this purpose either. Perhaps that is something that could be suggested via an email to spec-comments@jsr222.dev.java.net

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          • 2. Re: Mapping comments?
            aloubyansky
            aloubyansky Jun 22, 2005 5:33 AM (in response to dimitris)

            I think, Dimitris meant to bind comments from XML content to, e.g., Java fields, not to Java comments.

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            • 3. Re: Mapping comments?
              dimitris
              dimitris Jun 22, 2005 5:54 AM (in response to dimitris)

              Yes, just a simple mapping of xml comments to fields. If this could be optionally mapped to annotations, thats fine.

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              • 4. Re: Mapping comments?
                starksm64
                starksm64 Jun 22, 2005 8:50 AM (in response to dimitris)

                I guess I don't understand the difference between mapping to a java field and a java comment. Are you saying there should be treatment of comments as text to map onto an object the same as a text element?

                The problem is how is there a meaningful indexing of the comments to the java objects?

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                • 5. Re: Mapping comments?
                  aloubyansky
                  aloubyansky Jun 22, 2005 9:08 AM (in response to dimitris)

                   

                  "Scott" wrote:
                  Are you saying there should be treatment of comments as text to map onto an object the same as a text element?


                  Yes.

                  "Scott" wrote:
                  The problem is how is there a meaningful indexing of the comments to the java objects?


                  I don't know any rule for that. But there are use-cases, e.g. if there is no element 'description' the text could appear in comments instead and be bound to a field 'description' in a class.

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                  • 6. Re: Mapping comments?
                    dimitris
                    dimitris Jun 22, 2005 9:19 AM (in response to dimitris)

                    I was thinking of a simple binding that would let you get/set the comments before the beggining of an element (and after the end of the previous element).

                     ...
 </prev-element>

 <!-- comment1 -->
 <!-- comment2 -->
 <element1>
 ...
 </element1>




                    public class PojoForElement1
{
 String[] getComments()
 void setComments(String[])
 ...
}


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