Stephen, afair, we haved fixed either exactly this issue or a similar in CVS already. Could you try and report back to us whether this has been resolved ?
Werner PS It could be that this has been fixed at the <sql> level only, though ? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Stephen Bash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 15. August 2005 18:01 An: dev@castor.codehaus.org Betreff: [castor-dev] [XML] Regression Issue with Transient Fields Everyone- I know I'm a little slow finding to be finding what appears to be a regression issue with 0.9.7 now, but I figure better late than never right? Last week I went back to a project I hadn't touched in a while, and the mapping file (used for XML marshalling and unmarshalling) had a few fields labeled as transient. When I went to run the code, I received a NPE when I attempted to create an Unmarshaller using new Unmarshaller( mappingObj ) (see below for full trace). I finally traced it down to the fact that I had not specified types for the transient fields in the mapping file: <field name="names" transient="true" /> versus: <field name="names" transient="true" type="string" collection="array" /> I honestly prefer the former (from my perspective, Castor shouldn't waste clock cycles -- or programmer keystrokes -- on a field it doesn't care about), but if this behavior was changed for a reason, I'd be interested to hear it. (BTW, the latter form is not backward compatible with 0.9.6 either, so it seems to be an all or nothing game) I ran the same code with castor-0.9.7.jar and castor-0.9.6-xml.jar. In 0.9.6 the code runs fine, in 0.9.7 I get the exception. I'm running in Eclipse 3.1 on JDK 1.4.2 on WinXP Pro. Thanks everyone, and I'm happy to hear any comments anyone has. Stephen The exception: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.exolab.castor.mapping.loader.CollectionHandlers.hasHandler(CollectionHandlers.java:128) at org.exolab.castor.xml.XMLMappingLoader.createFieldDesc(XMLMappingLoader.java:515) at org.exolab.castor.mapping.loader.MappingLoader.createFieldDescs(MappingLoader.java:639) at org.exolab.castor.mapping.loader.MappingLoader.createDescriptor(MappingLoader.java:462) at org.exolab.castor.xml.XMLMappingLoader.createDescriptor(XMLMappingLoader.java:227) at org.exolab.castor.mapping.loader.MappingLoader.loadMapping(MappingLoader.java:282) at org.exolab.castor.mapping.Mapping.getResolver(Mapping.java:292) at org.exolab.castor.mapping.Mapping.getResolver(Mapping.java:247) at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.setMapping(Unmarshaller.java:475) at org.exolab.castor.xml.Unmarshaller.<init>(Unmarshaller.java:246) ------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please send an empty message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please send an empty message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------
