/**
* INTERNAL: When using the SAX or DOM Platform, this method is responsible for marshalling null
* values for the XML Direct Mapping.
*
* @param xPathFragment
* @param marshalRecord
* @param object
* @param session
* @param namespaceResolver
* @return true if this method caused any nodes to be marshaled, else false.
*/
public boolean directMarshal(
XPathFragment xPathFragment,
MarshalRecord marshalRecord, //
Object object,
CoreSession session,
NamespaceResolver namespaceResolver) {
// Handle attributes - XSI_NIL, ABSENT_NODE have the same behavior
if (xPathFragment.isAttribute()) {
// Write out an empty attribute
if (marshalNullRepresentation == XMLNullRepresentationType.EMPTY_NODE) {
marshalRecord.emptyAttribute(xPathFragment, namespaceResolver);
return true;
} else {
// XSI_NIL attributes are invalid - and are ignored
// ABSENT_NODE - Write out nothing
return false;
}
} else {
// Nillable: write out xsi:nil="true" attribute in empty element
if (marshalNullRepresentation == XMLNullRepresentationType.XSI_NIL) {
marshalRecord.nilSimple(namespaceResolver);
return true;
} else {
// EMPTY_NODE - Write out empty element
if (marshalNullRepresentation == XMLNullRepresentationType.EMPTY_NODE) {
marshalRecord.emptySimple(namespaceResolver);
return true;
} else {
// ABSENT_NODE - Write out nothing
return false;
}
}
}
}
