Collection support in generated multi-occurrence methods

Question

Hello;
Wondering if there are plans to add support for java collections to the generated
multi-occurence methods?
It would be useful to be able to do things like this:
Collection items = myPO.getItemCollection();
items.removeAll();
Or
Iterator itemIt = myPO.getItemIterator();

Answer 1

Hi,
[1] Are there any current issues with use of arrays? How does XMLBeans
handle programatic additions to the number of elements in an XML document
for example?
Reference: from Sun site "The length of the array must be specified when it
is created. You can use the new operator to create an array, or you can use
an array initializer. Once created, the size of the array cannot change. To
get the length of the array, you use the length attribute"
[2] If you have an existing object model which utilises HashMap and you
wanted to use XMLBeans as a toolkit to assist in creating XML from java,
what is the normal approach noting XMLBeans does not support collections?
No doubt an adaptor type layer to convert data between the existing java
domain model (i.e. with a hashmap) to the XMLBean generated java classes
(which use arrays). Seems to still be some manual effort here.
Greg
"Arek Stryjski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>
Wondering if there are plans to add support for java collections to thegenerated
multi-occurence methods?
It would be useful to be able to do things like this:
Collection items = myPO.getItemCollection();
items.removeAll();
Or
Iterator itemIt = myPO.getItemIterator();
..I disagree. In my opinion using comfortable array manipulation methods is
one of the advantages comparing XMLBeans to JAXB.
Most of the time you don't use only:
Iterator itemIt = myPO.getItemIterator();
But you need to put it in for loop. And then you need to make cast foreach
object in Iterator. This doesn't make code simpler, and it perform longer.
Then you get whole array you can do all operation like on Iterator butthere
is no cast needed.
To remove all elements you can just set an empty array to parent node.
The only case then Collections could be more comfortable then array willbe
sorting elements. I believe that then XMLBeans will support XQuery it will
be also possible to make it simple without Collections.
So if in future you plan to add Collection methods pleas leave also ones
which operate on arrays.
Regards
Arek