Node annotated with @Native is not serialised - does @Native work at all?

[gallafent]

I have a class which looks something like this (names changed to protect the innocent ;):

package com.com.com;

import name.pehl.piriti.commons.client.Native;
import name.pehl.piriti.xml.client.XmlWriter;
import name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node;

class Request
{
    public interface ReqWriter extends XmlWriter<Request> {}
    public static final ReqWriter WRITER = GWT.create(ReqWriter.class);

    @Native Node anXMLFragment;
}

I assign a Node which I have previously obtained from a NodeList generated by totoe's selectNodes to anXMLFragment, but when I serialise a Request using Request. WRITER. toXml (req), the XML element is empty: <anXMLFragment />.

I walked through in the debugger, and saw this generated code:

                // parsing template name/pehl/piriti/rebind/xml/writer/property/any.vm
                if (logger.isLoggable(FINE)) 
                {
                    logger.log(FINE, "Processing name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node anXMLFragment");
                }
                name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node value1007 = null;
                                                            value1007 = model.anXMLFragment;
                                                                        boolean value1007CreateRequired;
    if (value1007 != null)
{
            XmlWriter<name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node> value1007Writer = xmlRegistry.getWriter(name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node.class);
        if (value1007Writer != null)
        {
            XmlBuilder nestedXmlBuilder = new XmlBuilder("anXMLFragment");
            ((AbstractXmlWriter<name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node>)value1007Writer).appendModel(nestedXmlBuilder, value1007);
            xmlBuilder.append(nestedXmlBuilder);
        }
        else
        {
           xmlBuilder.append("anXMLFragment");
        }

The call to xmlRegistry.getWriter returns null, and so only the empty element is written. I looked in the xmlRegistry instance, and can see that there is indeed no writer for name.pehl.totoe.xml.client.Node in its set of writers.

What's going on here? Do I need to do something in order to get a “pass-through” writer for Node added to the registry? … or am I doing something else wrong, … or is this a bug?

[gallafent]

I experimentally altered the element to be @Native String anXMLFragment (and serialised the Element I have into that String before serialising the Request), and discovered that in this case the reserved characters are being encoded rather than passed through. This suggests that @Native is not implemented for serialisation!
I only see response tests at https://github.com/hpehl/piriti/tree/646ee1b0164cbb4ff6415d823ee4536cc0e50ee7/dev/src/test/java/name/pehl/piriti/client/native_ , which does back up that feeling I think.
Is that the case, then, that @Native is only implemented for deserialisation, not for serialisation?