Description Ian Levesque 2005-06-17 17:02:38 EDT

It is difficult to serialize hierarchies of Figures to XML because many
primitive classes do not conform to basic javabeans requirements (they lack
simple getter/setter pairs for fields).  This could be easily fixed with liberal
use of the "Generate Getter/Setters" command by someone with the ability to
commit to CVS.

To reproduce one example:

import org.eclipse.draw2d.geometry.Rectangle
import java.beans.XMLEncoder
import java.beans.XMLDecoder
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream

....

Rectangle inputRect = new Rectangle(50, 25, 100, 200);

ByteArrayOutputStream temporaryStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(temporaryStream);
encoder.writeObject(inputRect);
encoder.close();

byte[] buffer = temporaryStream.toByteArray();

XMLDecoder decoder = new XMLDecoder(new ByteArrayInputStream(buffer));
Rectangle outputRect = (Rectangle)decoder.readObject();
decoder.close();

if(!inputRect.equals(outputRect))
	System.out.println("Not equal! Before: " + inputRect + "  After: " + outputRect);