Issue 127: Do not allow to override BaseRepresenter.representData(Object data)
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index c09f5db..1f0c5d1 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 	</properties>

 	<body>

 	    <release version="1.9-SNAPSHOT" date="in Mercurial" description="Development">
+            <action dev="py4fun" type="remove" issue="127">

+                Do not allow to override BaseRepresenter.representData(Object data) because 

+                users should instead implement Represent interface (2011-07-21)

+            </action>

             <action dev="py4fun" type="remove" issue="124">

                 Deprecate DumperOptions.explicitRoot (2011-07-20)

             </action>

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/BaseRepresenter.java b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/BaseRepresenter.java
index e977859..3f2aa91 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/BaseRepresenter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/representer/BaseRepresenter.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
         return node;

     }

 

-    protected Node representData(Object data) {

+    protected final Node representData(Object data) {

         objectToRepresent = data;

         // check for identity

         if (representedObjects.containsKey(objectToRepresent)) {

diff --git a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue127/NullAliasTest.java b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue127/NullAliasTest.java
index 7d87b07..1f182ef 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue127/NullAliasTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/yaml/snakeyaml/issues/issue127/NullAliasTest.java
@@ -53,31 +53,4 @@
             }
         }
     }
-
-    public void testNullAnchor() {
-        Bean bean = new Bean();
-
-        bean.setA("a"); // leave b null
-
-        Yaml yaml = new Yaml(new Representer() {
-            /**
-             * This way is not recommended !
-             */
-            @Override
-            public Node representData(Object data) {
-                if (data instanceof Bean) {
-                    objectToRepresent = data;// this line is important !!!
-                    Bean bean = (Bean) data;
-                    Map<String, Object> fields = new LinkedHashMap<String, Object>(2);
-                    fields.put("a", bean.getA());
-                    fields.put("b", bean.getB());
-                    return representMapping(MY_TAG, fields, false);
-                } else {
-                    return super.representData(data);
-                }
-            }
-        });
-        String output = yaml.dump(bean);
-        assertEquals("!<tag:example.com,2011:bean>\na: a\nb: null\n", output);
-    }
 }
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