Hello there,
        Can you post your code?
>From where are you  marshalling and unmarshalling? Are you creating
brand new objects or are you marshalling from existing one?

Regards
        marco


-----Original Message-----
From: Velusamy Velu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 02 November 2004 18:35
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [castor-user] Marshaling issue

Well, I am not even saving the old XML in a file.  It is used by STxx
and thrown away.  I also followed the suggestion made by Tim.  Tim
suggested that I close the stream to which the XML string was written.
The problem still occurs.  

The source of the problem appears to be the marshaling process changing
the state of the object it marshals. Or, inside the marshal(object)
method an old, stale, cached version of the object is used.  To my
amazement I am not sure where, how, when, and which process does the
caching.  If I know that I will turn off the caching.  Without knowing
that specific information it is not possible to solve this problem.

 Below is the expected XML --

<vehicle-reference index="0">
    <statuses index="0">
        <item>AVAILABLE</item>
        <value>5</value>
    </statuses>
    <statuses index="1">
        <item>INUSE</item>
        <value>4</value>
        <selected>YES</selected>
    </statuses>
    <statuses index="2">
        <item>OUTFORMAINTENANCE</item>
        <value>6</value>
    </statuses>
    <statuses index="3">
        <item>SALVAGED</item>
        <value>7</value>
    </statuses>
</vehicle-reference>

However, I get -

<vehicle-reference index="0">
    <locations index="0">
        <item>CDO </item>
    </locations>
    <locations index="1">
        <item>CO </item>
    </locations>

    <types index="0">
        <item>VAN</item>
    </types>
    <types index="0">
        <item>SUV</item>
    </types>

    <statuses index="0">
        <item>AVAILABLE</item>
        <value>5</value>
    </statuses>
    <statuses index="1">
        <item>INUSE</item>
        <value>4</value>
    </statuses>
    <statuses index="2">
        <item>OUTFORMAINTENANCE</item>
        <value>6</value>
    </statuses>
    <statuses index="3">
        <item>SALVAGED</item>
        <value>7</value>
    </statuses>

    <models index="0">
        <item>ASTRO</item>
    </models>
    <models index="0">
        <item>C-2500</item>
    </models>

    <makes index="0">
        <item>CHEV</item>
    </makes>
    <makes index="0">
        <item>FORD</item>
    </makes>
</vehicle-reference>

that's wrong.


Thanks

Velusamy K. Velu
(614) 728-0017

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/04 12:27PM >>>

I haven't used the xml side of castor greatly, but have you tried
deleting the old xml file, and then marshaling the object again? I
know its kinda a shot in the dark, but since you said the first
marshal worked fine its worth a shot.


On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:07:46 -0500, Velusamy Velu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am continuing to investigate this problem and found the following
additional information -
> 
> The type of the object to be marshaled is VehicleReference
>         public class VehicleReference extends Selectable
>         {
>             private ArrayList    types     = null;
>             private ArrayList    models    = null;
>             private ArrayList    makes     = null;
>             private DropdownList statuses  = null;
>             private DropdownList locations = null;
>             private String       license   = null;
>         ...
>         }
> To isolate and repeat the problem only the statuses is populated.  All
other attributes left in null state.  The statuses is of type
DropdownList which extends the java.util.ArrayList and adds a couple of
more functionalities.
> 
> In debug mode while stepping through the code the object (an instance
of VehicleReference) is good until the marshaller.marshall(object)
method is called.
> 
> state of the object before calling -
>         public class VehicleReference extends Selectable
>         {
>             private ArrayList    types     = null;
>             private ArrayList    models    = null;
>             private ArrayList    makes     = null;
>             private DropdownList statuses  = DropdowList (id=305)
>             private DropdownList locations = null;
>             private String       license   = null;
>         ...
>         }
> 
> state of the object after that call
>         public class VehicleReference extends Selectable
>         {
>             private ArrayList    types     = DropdowList (id=306)
>             private ArrayList    models    = DropdowList (id=304)
>             private ArrayList    makes     = DropdowList (id=303)
>             private DropdownList statuses  = DropdowList (id=305)
>             private DropdownList locations = DropdowList (id=302)
>             private String       license   = null;
>         ...
>         }
> 
> The values assigned during the marshaling process to types, models,
makes, and locations are all from a previous run (about 3 days old) of
the program.  All of those values are accurate values but not wanted
now.
> 
> The result of this is the XML produced is incorrect.
> 
> I could see that the old object has been cached.  But by which
process? and why it does not refresh? and why it overrides the current
state of the object?  Why this happens only with the objects that are in
collections (ArrayList or Vector)?
> 
> Your help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> My previous email is truncated in the interest of keeping this thread
relatively clean.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Velusamy K. Velu
> (614) 728-0017
> 
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/04 08:46AM >>>
> Hello:
> 
> We are a developing a J2EE based web application.  The combination of
Struts and STxx is used to 
> .
> .
> 
> 
> .
> 
> I wonder if anyone ran into this kind of problem.  Any pointers would
greatly help us.  We have been spending about 4 days fruitlessly on this
problem.  I can provide more code snippets if necessary.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Velusamy K. Velu
> (614) 728-0017
> 
> 
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