[Axis2] A couple of issues with ADB

[Ruchith Fernando]

Hi Devs,

I'm playing with the Axis2 ABD stuff and I hope to use it in
implementing the WS-Trust stuff.
I ran into a couple of issues trying to use ADB.

1.) ADB Beans doesn't seem to properly set unqualified attributes
2.) ADB Beans cannot serialize qualified simple (containing a text
value) child elements.

Explanation:

Please have a look at this piece of code [1]. This produced the
following output:

<wst:RequestSecurityToken
xmlns:wst="http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust";
wst:Context="test"><TokenType>test</TokenType></wst:RequestSecurityToken>

Here comes the problems :-)

First I want to make the wst:Context attribute unqualified. Simply
remove the 'wst' prefix. Therefore I tried changing line number 27 as
follows :

 attributes[0] = new String("Context");

But this produced the following output which is missing the 'Context' attribute:

<wst:RequestSecurityToken
xmlns:wst="http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust";><TokenType>test</TokenType></wst:RequestSecurityToken>

Q1: Is this behaviour correct? Or am I doing somethign wrong?

When I tried changing line 27 to:

  attributes[0] = new QName("Context");

It produced:

<wst:RequestSecurityToken
xmlns:wst="http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust"; xmlns=""
Context="test"><TokenType
xmlns="">test</TokenType></wst:RequestSecurityToken>

but this has xmlns="", which I think should not be there.



Then I wanted to make the 'TokenType' element a qualified element
bound to 'http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust' namespace.
Since this is a simple element with only a child text node, I changed
line 22 to

  properties.add(new
QName("http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust";, "TokenType",
"wst"));

It produced:

<wst:RequestSecurityToken
xmlns:wst="http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust"; xmlns=""
Context="test"><wst:TokenType><bytes
xmlns=""></bytes></wst:TokenType></wst:RequestSecurityToken>

But here the value of the wst:TokenType element is missing :-( Instead
we have '<bytes xmlns=""></bytes>'

But ... going through the ADBPullParserTest revealed that our ADB can
hanle setting OMElements... I got the required output by replacing
line 21-23 with

                    OMFactory fac = OMAbstractFactory.getOMFactory();
                    OMElement elem = fac.createOMElement("TokenType",
"http://ws.apache.org/namespaces/axis2/trust";, "wst");
                    elem.setText("test");
        
                    ArrayList properties = new ArrayList();
                    properties.add(elem.getQName());
                    properties.add(elem);

This is quite useful but if I wanted to allow an ADBBean to accept an
unknown xml element from a user ... But for this situation, IMHO this
looks like a hack to me.

Q2: How can I correct this to produce
'<wst:TokenType>test</wst:TokenType>' WITHOUT inserting the OMElement?
Should I code another ADB Bean for the <wst:TokenType> element and if
so how can I simply set just a text value of that bean?

Thanks
Ruchith

[1] http://rafb.net/paste/results/Xp9bVP56.html