Hi Brad Yes, I can see you're using CXF HTTP Binding. I'd encourage you to try JAX-RS, not sure why it does not work in CXF HTTP Binding. With CXF JAX-RS you'd also have few options to plugin your custom serializers and deal with that namespace issue...
Cheers, Sergey -----Original Message----- From: Brad O'Hearne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 April 2008 06:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Base class members not serializing / deserializing I thought I'd add some sample code: My superclass: @XmlType public abstract class ServiceRequest { private String ssid; @XmlAttribute public String getSsid() { return ssid; } public void setSsid(String ssid) { this.ssid = ssid; } } My impl class: @XmlRootElement //I have tried both @XmlType and nothing here, no luck public class ListServersRequest extends ServiceRequest { } My service method: @Post @HttpResource(location = "/listServers") @WebResult (name = "ListServersResponse") . ListServersResponse listServers(ListServersRequest request); It never reaches the method. I get the following error: INFO: Invoking POST on /listServers Apr 4, 2008 10:03:55 PM org.apache.cxf.binding.http.interceptor.URIParameterInInterceptor handleMessage INFO: URIParameterInterceptor handle message on path [/listServers] with content-type [application/xml] Apr 4, 2008 10:03:55 PM org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain doIntercept INFO: Interceptor has thrown exception, unwinding now java.lang.NullPointerException at org .apache .cxf .binding .http.IriDecoderHelper.interopolateParams(IriDecoderHelper.java:306) at org .apache .cxf .binding .http .interceptor .URIParameterInInterceptor.mergeParams(URIParameterInInterceptor.java: 122) at org .apache .cxf .binding .http .interceptor .URIParameterInInterceptor .handleMessage(URIParameterInInterceptor.java:103) at org .apache .cxf .phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:208) at org .apache .cxf .transport .ChainInitiationObserver.onMessage(ChainInitiationObserver.java:77) at org .apache .cxf .transport .servlet.ServletDestination.doMessage(ServletDestination.java:79) at org .apache .cxf .transport .servlet.ServletController.invokeDestination(ServletController.java:264) at org .apache .cxf.transport.servlet.ServletController.invoke(ServletController.java: 123) at org .apache .cxf .transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet.invoke(AbstractCXFServlet.java: 170) at org .apache .cxf .transport.servlet.AbstractCXFServlet.doPost(AbstractCXFServlet.java: 148) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803) at org .apache .catalina .core .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java: 290) at org .apache .catalina .core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org .apache .catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java: 233) at org .apache .catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java: 175) at org .apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java: 128) at org .apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java: 102) at org .apache .catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java: 286) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java: 844) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol $Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java: 447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) If I rip the content from ServiceResponse and put it directly into ListServersResponse, everything works. Otherwise, everything fails. If anyone has any clue, I'd appreciate the help! Brad On Apr 4, 2008, at 6:47 PM, Brad O'Hearne wrote: > Hello, > > I am using CXF with RESTful services, configured with Spring. My > request objects (parameters to my service methods) and response > objects (return types on my service methods) have a common > structure, so I created some base classes with common members, which > the actual request and response objects I use and declare as types > in my service interface method signatures, and have discovered > something horrible...which I hope is something only as horrible as > my lack of knowledge on how to change the default behavior. > Apparently, all members defined on the base classes are ignored when > the serialization / deserialization binding occurs, and I receive > NullPointerExceptions. If I take all the members defined in my base > classes and stuff them into their subclasses, everything works fine. > Obviously, this is a bad scene, as it requires me to duplicate code > across every request and response object, respectively. > > How do I alter the CXF behavior (using JAXB) so that I can have my > request and response types extend from base classes and have those > base class members serialize and deserialize properly? > > Thanks, > > Brad ---------------------------- IONA Technologies PLC (registered in Ireland) Registered Number: 171387 Registered Address: The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
