Re: [castor-dev] SourceGenerator using existing Class as type

[Martin, Margaret]

Andi -
The approach that I have taken is to put the existing classes into a
separate schema that is referenced by the one that I want to generate from,
then set the namespace mapping to the actual package containing those
classes in castorbuilder.properties.

For example, the file ExternalTypes.xsd:
<xs:schema targetNamespace="http://schemas/test/externalTypes";
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
    <xs:complexType name="MyAttributeType"/>
</xs:schema>

MySchema.xsd:
<xs:schema
targetNamespace="http://www.vignette.com/castor/schemas/test/types";
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xo="http://schemas/test/externalTypes";>
        <xs:import namespace="http://schemas/test/externalTypes";
schemaLocation="ExternalTypes.xsd"/>
  <xs:element name="Person">
  <xs:element name="myAttribute" type="xo:MyAttributeType">
</xs:schema>

In castorbuilder.properties:
# XML namespace mapping to Java packages
#
org.exolab.castor.builder.nspackages=\
  http://schemas/test/externalTypes=com.myStuff.myTypes


Then just run the generator against MySchema.xsd... I don't know if this is
a non-standard approach, but it has worked just great for me -

Hope this helps -
Margaret

-----Original Message-----
From: Andi Kuhn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [castor-dev] SourceGenerator using existing Class as type




Hi,

i have a problem using the SourceGenerator with alreasy existing types.
I want to create a class e.g. Person that uses some other existing class as 
attribute and not just a primitive string or integer.



public class Person
{
    private com.mycompany.MyExistingClass myAttribute;

    public void setMyAttribute( com.mycompany.MyExistingClass att )
    {
         myAttribute = att;
     }
    public com.mycompany.MyExistingClass getMyAttribute()
    {
         return myAttribute;
    }
}


If i'd use primitve string instead of MyExisingClass schema would be
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; >
  <xs:element name="Person">
    <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:element name="myAttribute" type="xs:string"/>
              </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>  
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>


I tried something like 
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; >
  <xs:element name="Person">
    <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
              <xs:element name="myAttribute">
                 <xs:complexType/>
              </xs:element>
              </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>  
  </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

Which already is near what i want, but creates a class MyAttribute, that i 
don't want. 
What do i have to do to tell the generator that the type should be my 
existing class and also not creating this class ?

Thanks for help,
Andi
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