AttributeMapper problems with getDeclaredField() and inherieted fields

AttributeMapper makes use of getDelcaredField() which has very onerous requirements of field visibility and inherited fields.

Personally I find the whole approach taken by the AttributeMapper to be too heavy handed and would like to be able to easily specify that any type that can be handled by a SingleValueConverter should be written/read as an attribute.

Up until the 1.2..2-SNAPSHOT the following approach worked well, I simply added the following MapperWrapper and

class MyAttributeMapper extends MapperWrapper {

XStream xStream;

public MyAttributeMapper(Mapper wrapped, XStream xStream)

protected SingleValueConverter getLocalConverterFromItemType(Class type) {
Converter converter = xStream.getConverterLookup().lookupConverterForType(type);
if (converter != null && converter instanceof SingleValueConverter)

else

}

public SingleValueConverter getConverterFromItemType(Class type)

}

However testing with 1.2.2-SNAPSHOT our entire application bombs because of the added restriction introduced by the use of getDeclaredField() in AttributeMapper, as an example, see the following test :