Overloading method "add" of Chunk

[TarikS]

Hello

I ran into an issue with the processing of collections in a CompositeItemProcessor, what bugs me is that I made a smoke test some time ago where I return a list of items which properly got written by a FlatFileItemWriter.

I need to revisit that smoke test though to be sure.

The issue I ran into is that if I return a list of items by the last processor the write method of the ItemWriter will not decompose the list since the list I returned in my processor is wrapped in another list by the SimpleChunkProcessor by the method:

70 
71 	public void add(W item) {
72 		items.add(item);
73 	}

I cannot foresee the side effects yet but I was wondering if it makes sense to overload the add method with;

public void add(Collection<? extends W> items){
            items.addAll(items);
}

For the time being I will extend FlatFileItemWriter and override the write method and decomposing the outer list if I get nested list structures as the output of my processor chain.

Any comments appreciated.

Best regards

[TarikS]

Hello

I am not sure why there was no response, I implemented my own workaround which dissasembles List of List structures if occured and calls the reader with the unpacked lists.
But I am still wondering why this is not covered for a processor, I am surely missing something but would be happy if someone can shed some light on it.

Thanks
Tarik