Description Rick Barkhouse 2011-01-19 14:47:48 EST

Using Java annotations, the user can have an enum like this:

   @XmlEnum(String.class)
   private enum CustomerType { PROMO_CUSTOMER, NEW_CUSTOMER, VIP, NORMAL }
 
Because no @XmlEnumValue annotations were specified, the constant names themselves will be marshalled to XML (e.g. <customer-type>VIP</customer-type>)

However in OXM, you are forced to define the constant names twice:

   <xml-enum java-enum="CustomerType" value="java.lang.String">
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="PROMO_CUSTOMER">PROMO_CUSTOMER</xml-enum-value>
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="NEW_CUSTOMER">NEW_CUSTOMER</xml-enum-value>
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="VIP">VIP</xml-enum-value>
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="NORMAL">NORMAL</xml-enum-value>
   </xml-enum>

It would be nice if the user could just specify the value once for this default case, such as:

   <xml-enum java-enum="CustomerType" value="java.lang.String">
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="PROMO_CUSTOMER"/>
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="NEW_CUSTOMER"/>
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="VIP"/>
      <xml-enum-value java-enum-value="NORMAL"/>
   </xml-enum>