XStream

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.2.2
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Annotations
• Labels:

  None

Suppose you have two classes A and B like this which are both declared with Annotations.configureAliases():

public abstract class A {
@XStreamAlias("test")
@XStreamAsAttribute
private String bug;
}

@XStreamAlias("concrete")
public class B extends A {
@XStreamAlias("firstName")
@XStreamAsAttribute
private String name;
}

Then XStream persists an instance of B like this:
<concrete firstName="michael" test="whatever"/>

Then XStream will not read the attribute 'test' from the XML document into the class since it expects the attribute name to be 'bug'. Basically the @XStreamAlias annotation is ignored in (abstract) super classes and the actual field name is used instead when the XML document is read; when an object is persisted, however, the @XStreamAlias annotation is used correctly.

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  Felix LJ Mayer

• Created:

  18/Oct/07 11:25 PM

  Updated:

  19/Oct/07 1:20 AM

  Resolved:

  19/Oct/07 1:20 AM