Optionally Add fqcn as an attribute to each node within the XML.

Jörg Schaible added a comment - 22/Feb/08 5:58 PM Hi, looking at the example I suspect rather some strange use case than a real scenario that is often used. What is exactly the "name"? If you mean the field name, what should XStream do if there's no field e.g. any element in a collection? However, you can accomplish both with workarounds. For the fqcn you may overload the convert method of the TreeMarshaller: xstream.setMarshallingStrategy( new TreeMarshallingStrategy() { protected TreeMarshaller createMarshallingContext( HierarchicalStreamWriter writer, ConverterLookup converterLookup, Mapper mapper) { TreeMarshaller marshaller = super .createMarshallingContext(writer, converterLookup, context) { protected void convert( Object item, Converter converter) { writer.addAttribute( "fqn" , item.getClass.getName); super .convert(item, converter); } } return new TreeMarshaller(writer, converterLookup, mapper); } } For the name you may overwrite the startNode method of the HierarchicalStreamWriter in use and instead of writing the tag name, you may write object and add immediately the name attribute with the real tag name. Jörg

Jörg Schaible added a comment - 25/Feb/08 4:53 PM Closed after no further comment has been given.