Re: Minor changes to bean serializer -- request a review by a committer

[Dave Schaumann <ds...@rdc.vanteon.com>]

"Nelson, Christopher" wrote:
> 
> This is a pretty good point.  The only downside is that you may
> have things silently fail that should throw errors.  You could
> have an xml request bound to the wrong bean, and with lenient 
> bean serializer it will instantiate the bean but not set any 
> properties, whereas before it would throw IllegalArgumentException.  
> I do agree you want to offer both behaviors though.

Isn't this what the mustUnderstand attribute is for, or is it
strictly for controlling the processing phase (as opposed to
(un)serialization)?

Perhaps a "decoderMustUnderstand" attribute is needed?

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-Dave