How would you go about serialising a Map using simple XML so that it looks something like:
<elem foo="value">key</elem>
Instead of the normal
<elem foo="key">value</elem>
(The map is one to many, and since this will be edited by humans, I wanted it to be clearer.)
[EDIT]: Doesn't Fix.
Have you tried something like:
@ElementMap(entry="property", value="value", attribute=true, inline=true)
private Map<String, String> map;
or some combination, i.e. to use the other attributes of the @ElementMap annotation too?
attribute=true sets the key as the attribute, and not the value.
key and value parameters are used like this. These parameters define what the xml element is called when inline=false. For example: @ElementMap(entry="spam",value="foo", key="bar") would yield <spam><bar>key</bar><foo>value</foo></spam> for each K,V pairs.inline leaves the value as text. and the attribute only refers to the key, not the value. Try it for yourself. You still get <foo> <property key="key2">value2</property> <property key="key">value</property> </foo> (the above is actual output with inline=true)