[XBEAN-69] Support for maps of objects

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8
• Fix Version/s: 3.0
• Component/s: spring

Environment

Linux JDK 1.4.2

• Assignee: Guillaume Nodet
• Reporter: Paul Austin
• Created: 04/Jan/07 00:24
• Updated: 12/Mar/07 09:47
• Resolved: 12/Mar/07 09:47

Description

The current syntax supports defining a map of values for a property. This only works if the value is a string.

<beans:beans
xmlns="http://ns.com/app/1.0"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
>
<MyObject>
<mapProperty>
<property key="sideBar">hello</property>
</mapProperty>
</MyObject>
</beans:beans>

For my application I would like the value of the map to be another XBean

<beans:beans
xmlns="http://ns.com/app/1.0"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
>
<MyObject>
<mapProperty>
<entry key="sideBar">
<ChildObject>
<name>Test</name>
</ChildObject>
</entry>
</mapProperty>
</MyObject>
</beans:beans>

I tried to use the spring map object but all this does is set an empty map.

<beans:beans
xmlns="http://ns.com/app/1.0"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
>
<MyObject>
<mapProperty>
<util:map>
<!-- Use the spring namespace for entry -->
<beans:entry key="sideBar">
<ChildObject>
<name>Test</name>
</ChildObject>
</beans:entry>
</util:map>
</mapProperty>
</MyObject>
</beans:beans>

Issue Links

• duplicates: XBEAN-80 Custom Map values aren't parsed properly (using spring 2.0)