Stephen, I think you are right in that I have fixed a problem that does not seem to be related to your problem (however close or similar the underlying story is ... ). Anyhow, any additional (regression) tester joining us would be welcome ... ;-).
Werner -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Stephen Bash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. August 2005 14:00 An: dev@castor.codehaus.org Betreff: Re: AW: [castor-dev] [XML] Regression Issue with Transient Fields Werner- I'll see what I can do about fetching the CVS version and testing it out. But seeing as the error occurs at the instantiation of the (XML) Unmarshaller rather than at loadMapping() your last comment may hit the nail on the head. Thanks, Stephen Werner Guttmann wrote: > 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] > ------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------- 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] -------------------------------------------------
