Make XStream ignore one specific private variable
- by Tigraine
Hi guys, I have a little problem with a class I am currently writing a save function for.
I'm using XStream (com.thoughtworks.xstream) to serialize a class to XML using the DOMDriver.
The class looks like this:
public class World {
private Configuration config;
public World(Configuration config) {
this.config = config;
}
}
So, the issue here is that I do not want to serialize Configuration when serializing world, rather I'd like to give XStream a preconstructed Configuration instance when calling fromXml().
Problem here is mainly class design, Configuration holds a private reference to the GUI classes and therefore serializing Configuration means serializing the whole application completely with GUI etc.. And that's kind of bad.
Is there a way to instruct XStream to not serialize the private field config, and upon load supply XStream with a configuration instance to use?
greetings Daniel
