Hi
I can't find any information on inheritance in the CXF doc.
The only info I found was on the XFire site and the Jira issue CXF-1164
Say, I have:
public class Parent {
private String p1;
(+ get/set accessors)
}
public class Child extends Parent {
private String c1;
private String c2;
(+ get/set accessors)
}
The SOAP exposed interface is:
public interface IExample {
public Parent findSomething(... params...);
}
The implementation is:
public class ExampleImpl implements IExample {
public Parent findSomething(... params...) {
return new Child();
}
}
The WSDL shows:
...
<xsd:complexType name="Child">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="p1" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="c1" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="c2" nillable="true"
type="xsd:string"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
...
Now the client cannot do something like:
Child ch = (Child)service.findSomething(... params ...);
as this will fail with a ClassCastException.
So is there a way to define inheritance (annotation? Spring config?)
for the model objects being returned so the WSDL generated shows the
inheritance properly allowing the clients to cast objects accordingly?
Thx.
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Frederic P. Soulier
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