Hi Samisa, I'm sorry I wasn't clear, I made it seem like an Axis2/C problem. I was actually referring to the source code obtained from the ADB code generator.
Cheers, Sérgio --- On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is service implementation detail, and nothing to do with the > engine. Axis2/C engine just needs AXIOM as input and will return AXIOM as > output. So you are free to implement the business logic the way you want. > > Samisa... > > Sérgio Gomes wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi there, > > > > First of all let me explain what I'm trying to do and what's > > happening. I have a method that receives an abstract type A. Of > > course, being an abstract type, it's not meant to be instantiated; > > there are instead other two types, A1 and A2, which are not abstract, > > and inherit from A. > > > > The problem is, when I provide an object of type A1 or A2 to the > > method, I have to cast it to A, and the serialization code will write > > it to the XML document as an A, thereby losing all the specific > > properties of the derived type and effectively sending an abstract > > type as the method parameter. If the serialization code for the > > derived type was used instead of the base class's, it would work. The > > problem can be generalized to any hierarchy of abstract or concrete > > types being passed as parameters or returned as results. > > > > I can see two solutions to this: one of them is by having each object > > contain pointers to the serialization/deserialization functions of its > > own type, and using those pointers every time we want to > > serialize/deserialize. The other one is by making the objects aware of > > their own type and having the superclasse's > > serialization/deserialization functions call the appropriate type's > > functions (this would likely get quite complex very quickly in > > multi-level hierarchies). > > > > I'm willing to implement these changes myself, but I'd like to hear > > some comments regarding the several options and the whole concept. > > > > Cheers, > > Sérgio > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Samisa Abeysinghe Director, Engineering; WSO2 Inc. > > http://www.wso2.com/ - "The Open Source SOA Company" > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
