[jboss-dev-forums] [Design the new POJO MicroContainer] - Re: JBMICROCONT-336; empty string failure

[alex.loubyansky@jboss.com]

"adrian at jboss.org" wrote : "alex.loubyansky at jboss.com" wrote : adrian wrote : Maybe there should be some kind of @JBossXmlValue
  |   |   | annotation where we can say we want the empty string even for complex types.
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  |   | This alone doesn't make sense to me. I.e. the property could always be initialized to an empty string and if there was actual data it would override it.
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  | You could have the case (not this one) where you have a mixed
  | complex type and you want to know the value is ""
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But with that annotation the value always will be "" (unless of course there is actual text data), won't it?

adrian wrote : anonymous wrote : 
  |   | adrian wrote : I'd suggest an element on the annotation where you say you don't want
  |   |   | the empty string data if there are child xml elements?
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  |   | Yes, I was thinking you needed this one.
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  |   | An alternative could be a way to specify the default value (which in your case would be an empty string) in case there is no content.
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  | Except in this case, we don't to apply the default when there are other elements.
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Yes, that's what I meant.

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