Hi Sachith,
to 1: Stay with the org.exolab.castor.jaxb2schema package for the time
being.
to 2: If you like to you can initially start from a schema and generate
source code for test classes with the JAXB2 reference implementation
from that schema. But this step should not be included in tests of your
tool to generate schemas. Instead the source code and the expected
schema should be part of the test case only.
From my point of view the test need to:
- compile source of test classes
- feed the test classes into your schema generator
(this gives you a tree of schema objects)
- serialize scheam objects into xsd
- compare generated and expected xsd
an alternative would be to:
- compile source of test classes
- feed the test classes into your schema generator
(this gives you a tree of schema objects)
- load expected xsd into a tree of scheam objects
- compare the 2 scheam object trees
to 3: sounds good and according to your follow up mail you already
solved that.
PS: could you please attach a patch of your current progress to
CASTOR-2033 every few days for us to get an idea of what you are working
at at the moment. The patch do not need to always include the required libs.
Regards
Ralf
Sachith Dhanushka schrieb:
Hi,
Let me summarize all the queations that I have right now, so that
Werner, Ralf or some one who has some insight can help me.
1. Where will my code fit? Which module and package? For the time being
I didn't put my code anywhere, but I have a separate self contained
environment for my project with an ant build. Also I used the
org.exolab.castor.jaxb2schema.* as the package name.
2. How can I write the tests for the code. What I am thinking is like this.
-
Start with a schema and generate code for it using JAXB2 schema gen tool.
- feed those generated classes in to my code, build Castor schema model.
- Serialize the schema model and compare it with the original schema used.
One of the difficulties I encounter was that the two schemas might be
semantically equal but syntactically different. For example the starting schema might contain maxOccurs=1, but the generated schema won't contain it as it is the default. So I might have problems in automating the testing.
3. How do I know which class to start with to feed in to my code?
Basically what will be the external api of my
code.For the time being it is public Schema buildSchema(Class clazz)
throws CastorException; But this requires the user to pass the root
element
classname in to the code. But alternatively I was thinking to scan a folder and load the classes. But I am not sure how feasible this is.
Those are some of the questions
that I have right now. Will post the rest as and when I have problems.
Thanks,
SD`2
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