add an example for issue 60: skip JavaBean properties
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 67e19e1..3f2737f 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@
 	</properties>

 	<body>

 		<release version="1.7" date="in Mercurial" description="development">

-	        <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="58" due-to="jeff.caulfield">

+	        <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="60">

+                Provide example for skipping null and empty collections (2010-03-29)

+            </action>

+            <action dev="py4fun" type="fix" issue="58" due-to="jeff.caulfield">

                 JavaBeanDumper.dump throws NullPointerException on list property 

                 with null element (2010-03-23)

             </action>

diff --git a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue60/SkipBean.java b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue60/SkipBean.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c70854
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue60/SkipBean.java
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/**

+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Andrey Somov

+ *

+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at

+ *

+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

+ *

+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

+ * limitations under the License.

+ */

+

+package org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue60;

+

+import java.io.File;

+import java.util.ArrayList;

+import java.util.Date;

+import java.util.HashMap;

+import java.util.List;

+import java.util.Map;

+

+public class SkipBean {

+

+    private List<Integer> listInt;

+    private List<String> listStr;

+    private List<Date> listDate;

+    private List<File> empty = new ArrayList<File>(0);

+    private Map<String, Integer> map = new HashMap<String, Integer>(0);

+    private String text;

+    private Integer number;

+

+    public List<Integer> getListInt() {

+        return listInt;

+    }

+

+    public void setListInt(List<Integer> listInt) {

+        this.listInt = listInt;

+    }

+

+    public List<String> getListStr() {

+        return listStr;

+    }

+

+    public void setListStr(List<String> listStr) {

+        this.listStr = listStr;

+    }

+

+    public List<Date> getListDate() {

+        return listDate;

+    }

+

+    public void setListDate(List<Date> listDate) {

+        this.listDate = listDate;

+    }

+

+    public String getText() {

+        return text;

+    }

+

+    public void setText(String text) {

+        this.text = text;

+    }

+

+    public Integer getNumber() {

+        return number;

+    }

+

+    public void setNumber(Integer number) {

+        this.number = number;

+    }

+

+    public List<File> getEmpty() {

+        return empty;

+    }

+

+    public void setEmpty(List<File> empty) {

+        this.empty = empty;

+    }

+

+    public Map<String, Integer> getMap() {

+        return map;

+    }

+

+    public void setMap(Map<String, Integer> map) {

+        this.map = map;

+    }

+}

diff --git a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue60/SkipBeanTest.java b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue60/SkipBeanTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfe3ed1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue60/SkipBeanTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/**

+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Andrey Somov

+ *

+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at

+ *

+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

+ *

+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

+ * limitations under the License.

+ */

+

+package org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue60;

+

+import java.util.Arrays;

+

+import junit.framework.TestCase;

+

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Dumper;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.DumperOptions;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Util;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.Yaml;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.introspector.Property;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.CollectionNode;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.MappingNode;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.Node;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.NodeTuple;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.SequenceNode;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.nodes.Tag;

+import org.yaml.snakeyaml.representer.Representer;

+

+public class SkipBeanTest extends TestCase {

+

+    public void testSkipNull() {

+        Yaml yaml = new Yaml(new Dumper(new SkipNullRepresenter(), new DumperOptions()));

+        String output = yaml.dump(getBean());

+        // System.out.println(output);

+        assertEquals(Util.getLocalResource("issues/issue60-1.yaml"), output);

+    }

+

+    private class SkipNullRepresenter extends Representer {

+        @Override

+        protected NodeTuple representJavaBeanProperty(Object javaBean, Property property,

+                Object propertyValue, Tag customTag) {

+            if (propertyValue == null) {

+                return null;

+            } else {

+                return super

+                        .representJavaBeanProperty(javaBean, property, propertyValue, customTag);

+            }

+        }

+    }

+

+    public void testSkipEmptyCollections() {

+        Yaml yaml = new Yaml(new Dumper(new SkipEmptyRepresenter(), new DumperOptions()));

+        String output = yaml.dump(getBean());

+        // System.out.println(output);

+        assertEquals(Util.getLocalResource("issues/issue60-2.yaml"), output);

+    }

+

+    private class SkipEmptyRepresenter extends Representer {

+        @Override

+        protected NodeTuple representJavaBeanProperty(Object javaBean, Property property,

+                Object propertyValue, Tag customTag) {

+            NodeTuple tuple = super.representJavaBeanProperty(javaBean, property, propertyValue,

+                    customTag);

+            Node valueNode = tuple.getValueNode();

+            if (Tag.NULL.equals(valueNode.getTag())) {

+                return null;// skip 'null' values

+            }

+            if (valueNode instanceof CollectionNode) {

+                if (Tag.SEQ.equals(valueNode.getTag())) {

+                    SequenceNode seq = (SequenceNode) valueNode;

+                    if (seq.getValue().isEmpty()) {

+                        return null;// skip empty lists

+                    }

+                }

+                if (Tag.MAP.equals(valueNode.getTag())) {

+                    MappingNode seq = (MappingNode) valueNode;

+                    if (seq.getValue().isEmpty()) {

+                        return null;// skip empty maps

+                    }

+                }

+            }

+            return tuple;

+        }

+    }

+

+    private SkipBean getBean() {

+        SkipBean bean = new SkipBean();

+        bean.setText("foo");

+        bean.setListDate(null);

+        bean.setListInt(Arrays.asList(new Integer[] { null, 1, 2, 3 }));

+        bean.setListStr(Arrays.asList(new String[] { "bar", null, "foo", null }));

+        return bean;

+    }

+}

diff --git a/src/test/resources/issues/issue60-1.yaml b/src/test/resources/issues/issue60-1.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d148e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/issues/issue60-1.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+!!org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue60.SkipBean
+empty: []
+listInt: [null, 1, 2, 3]
+listStr: [bar, null, foo, null]
+map: {}
+text: foo
diff --git a/src/test/resources/issues/issue60-2.yaml b/src/test/resources/issues/issue60-2.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d5100c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/issues/issue60-2.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+!!org.yaml.snakeyaml.issues.issue60.SkipBean
+listInt: [null, 1, 2, 3]
+listStr: [bar, null, foo, null]
+text: foo