Sub-sub-class exception handling

[Matt McMinn]

I have an exception hierarchy like the following:

Exception
+--MATEException
   +--DocumentException
      +--BadFileAttachmentException

I'm using java2wsdl to generate my WSDL file, and it seems to be
generating OK:

[snip]
<schema targetNamespace="http://digilore.com/mate/exceptions";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
   
   <complexType name="MATEException">
    <sequence>
     <element name="cause" nillable="true" type="xsd:anyType"/>
     <element name="message" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
    </sequence>
   </complexType>
  </schema>

  <schema
targetNamespace="http://digilore.com/mate/engine/exceptions/document";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
   <complexType name="DocumentException">
    <complexContent>
     <extension base="tns5:MATEException">
      <sequence/>
     </extension>
    </complexContent>
   </complexType>
   <complexType name="BadFileAttachmentException">
    <complexContent>
     <extension base="tns7:DocumentException">
      <sequence/>
     </extension>
    </complexContent>
   </complexType>
[snip]

My methods are declared as throwing DocumentException, but in the actual
code, it throws a BadFileAttachmentException.  In a regular Java app,
this exception could still be caught as a BadFileAttachmentException.
Through the web service however, I'm only able to catch
DocumentException.

The SOAP fault that gets transmitted back looks like this:
<soapenv:Fault>
  <faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
<faultstring>com.digilore.mate.engine.exceptions.document.BadFileAttachmentException:
 The number of attachments (2) does not equal the number of md5 sums 
(1).</faultstring>
  <detail>
    <com.digilore.mate.engine.exceptions.document.DocumentException
xsi:type="ns1:BadFileAttachmentException"
xmlns:ns1="http://digilore.com/mate/engine/exceptions/document";>
      <message xsi:type="soapenc:string"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>The number of
attachments (2) does not equal the number of md5 sums (1).</message>
    </com.digilore.mate.engine.exceptions.document.DocumentException>
    <ns2:hostname
xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/";>Matt</ns2:hostname>
  </detail>
</soapenv:Fault>

Client side, I'm using wsdl2java to generate stubs, and it will
deserialize the exception to DocumentException, but not to the
subclasses.  Is there some way to be able to catch the subclass of
DocumentException, rather than DocumentException?

Thanks

Matt McMinn
DigiLore
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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