possible enhancments

[Farouk Elabady]

Hi Alessandro Vurro, 

I love you framework and how fast it can get , ans would be great if you can add the following ideas

1 - mix between xml configuration and annotation

digging around the code I found that xml configuration takes higher precedence, which is normal ,so what I wish for is the possiblity to mix between the two for a single class 

for example I have a class called currency that I applied some annotation to it , but I need to make dynamic custom conversion so I needed to do it in xml or api style, but when I do that 

all the annotation is gone , and I am forced to move all the annotation into the xml , would be great if the two can be applied.

2- mapping between destination and source list , for example

JMapper<Dest, Source> mapper = new JMapper<>(Dest.class, Source.class);

mapper.getDestinationList(source); or mapper.getDestination(// list of source and return list of destination);

it will be also great if I can control the collection type , or maybe return a configured map of key value.

3- using functional API and lambda for custom conversion.

to see this through I will apply a simple example with the following code.

public class Currency {

String code;

String name;

int value;
// getters and setters
}

public class Dest {

@JMap

String test;

@JMap("code")

Currency currency;
}

public class Source {

@JMap

String test;

String code;
}

public class Service {

public Currency getCurrency(String code) {

Currency curr = new Currency();

curr.setCode(code);

curr.setName("egypt");

curr.setValue(123);

return curr;

}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

Source source = new Source();

source.setCode("EGypt");

source.setTest("test  here");

ModelMapper map =  new DefaultModelMapper();

JMapperAPI api = new JMapperAPI();

Service service = new Service();

api.add(JMapperAPI.mappedClass(Dest.class).add(new Attribute("currency").value("code"))

.add(new Conversion("conversion").from("code").to("currency").body(""

+ "System.out.println(\"trying dynamic covnersion\");"

+ "org.test.jmapper2.Service service = new org.test.jmapper2.Service();"

+" org.test.jmapper2.Currency cur = service.getCurrency(${source});"

+ "return cur;"))

);

JMapper<Dest, Source> mapper = new JMapper<>(Dest.class, Source.class, api);

Dest d = mapper.getDestination(source);

}

as from the example what I want to do is to custom convert between a String code , into a currency object, if I use api or xml , it will be erro prone plus , javaassist complaint a lot tell I got it right , and what if I want the vice versa of the conversion to convert from a destination to a source, so my idea is maybe if we used functional api to supply the custom conversion code then that would be great for example

Conversion convert = new Conversion("name")
convert.from("code").to("currency").body( (source) -> service.getCurrency(source.code));

I will also attach a wrapper class I made to solve this kind of problems , would love your feedback.

Best regards

Farouk Elabady

[milan sonkar]

Hi All,

This is a great framework, however there are very few updates from last 5 years. Are we planning for a release with new features?

Thanks,

Milan