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schmittjoh
Enhancement: make XmlList available for classes
Currently you can use XmlList only for properties and methods, therefore if you want to list all posts of a blog you can't have
<result>
<post>
<title><![CDATA[Foo]]></title>
<body><![CDATA[Text for Foo]]></body>
</post>
<post>
<title><![CDATA[Bar]]></title>
<body><![CDATA[Text for Bar]]></body>
</post>
</result>
but you get
<result>
<entry>
<title><![CDATA[Foo]]></title>
<body><![CDATA[Text for Foo]]></body>
</entry>
<entry>
<title><![CDATA[Bar]]></title>
<body><![CDATA[Text for Bar]]></body>
</entry>
</result>
The entry name seems only customizable for xml collections in a property. See the visitArray() method in XmlSerializationVisitor.php.
What would you gain from it? XMLList only seems useful in the context of serializing a list of items, not the entirety of an object.
@marco-santamaria So I guess you are serializing an array of blog post objects.
$array = array(new BlogPost(), new BlogPost()); which makes it impossible to specify the xml name for each entry.
I agree the solution to it would be add a new annotation like XmlEntry("post") which specifies the entry name of the class in an array. Also I wonder what XmlRoot stands for if used on subchilds? What if there are multiple XmlRoots given for a tree of objects? Maybe we can also use XmlRoot to specifiy entry names on a class level for childs. Thus not needed XmlEntry.
