Hi Scott,
Have you tried 0.9.5.3 RC1?
An xsi:type bug affecting root elements was fixed in that release and it
may solve the problem you face.
Thanks,
--Keith
"Liu, Scott" wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
>
> I am using castor framework in a web service project. I have built a
> prototype involving Axis, castor and .NET, which worked pretty well.
> Thanks to all, who has contributed to the success of the castor project.
>
> I have moved from prototyping to the actual project recently and
> generated server side code using Castor. But I encountered a problem in
> unmarshalling an inherited xml element on the server side when I ran my
> application.
>
> Basically there is a base element with type of "Record" and several
> elements with types extending the base type of "Record" (see below for
> the schema section). I have a .NET client which marshaled it
> successfully as below in the soap request.
>
> <soap:Body>
> <addRequest xmlns="urn:webservices">
> <record xmlns:q1="urn:crm" xsi:type="q1:Event">
> <q1:title>A test event</q1:title>
>
> <q1:startDate>2004-02-21T01:01:01.008:00</q1:startDate>
> </record>
> </addRequest>
> </soap:Body>
>
> Notice that the body contains an element "record" with instance type of
> "Event".
>
> The soap request then was posted to the server and I was expecting
> Castor would recognize the "record" element with schema instance
> "q1:Event" and unmarshal it using "EventDescriptor" class instead of the
> "RecordDescriptor" class. Since "Record" descriptor does not have
> elements defined in the "event" descriptor and it failed with the
> following message as indicated in the soap response.
>
> <soapenv:Body>
> <soapenv:Fault>
> <faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
> <faultstring>org.xml.sax.SAXException: Unable to marshall
> between XML and Castor Objects :unable to find FieldDescriptor for
> 'title' in ClassDescriptor of Record</faultstring>
> <detail>
> <ns1:stackTrace ................. />
> </detail>
> </soapenv:Fault>
> </soapenv:Body>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to solve this inheritance issue in castor
> marshalling/unmarshalling process?
>
> Any hint or suggestion is extremely welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
> P.S. the schema involving the base record and the elements inherited
> from the it.
>
> <complexType name="Record" abstract="true">
> <attribute name="key" type="xsd:string"/>
> </complexType>
> <element name="record" type="dto:Record"/>
>
> <xsd:element name="Event" type="act:Event"/>
> <xsd:complexType name="Event">
> <xsd:complexContent>
> <xsd:extension base="dto:Record">
> <xsd:sequence>
> <xsd:element name="title"
> type="xsd:string"/>
> <xsd:element name="startDate"
> type="xsd:dateTime" minOccurs="0"/>
> </xsd:sequence>
> </xsd:extension>
> </xsd:complexContent>
> </xsd:complexType>
>
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