beanio is stripping empty spaces for fixed length string

[dav...@gmail.com]

Hi, Kevin,

I have a field defined in mapping.xml as below

<field length="1" maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="1" name="status"/>

It does allow different status characters including " ". However, after running beanio unmarshal, I see the space is stripped. Can we work around it or any patch you will recommend? Unmarshalling fixed length string is not supposed to behave as xml element, because " " can represent a real value.

Please advise.

-Lei

[dav...@gmail.com]

BTW, I did tried attribute trim="false", but unmarshaller still stripped the empty string.

[Kevin]

Hi Lei,

By default, padding is removed for any padded field, and all fixed length fields are considered padded.  To disable this during unmarshaling, set keepPadding="true" on your field definition.

Thanks,

Kevin

[dav...@gmail.com]

It works. Nice!!! It's better to include this attribute in the reference document.

Thanks Kevin