Incorrect deserialization of null values in Map
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                 Key: CXF-1947
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-1947
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Aegis Databinding
            Reporter: Julien Coloos


Hi,

There is an issue with AEGIS deserialization (at least on server-side) of Maps 
that contain null values: the retrieved value may not be null, and can actually 
be the previous value deserialized from the Map.
For exemple, if the Map contains 3 (key;value) pairs ("0", null), ("1", 
Object1) and ("2", null), AEGIS will hand over ("0", null), ("1", Object1) and 
("2", Object1) to the implementation class.

I had a quick look at the source code, and I think the issue is in the 
org.apache.cxf.aegis.type.collection.MapType.readObject(MessageReader, Context) 
function: the variables holding the key and value objects are declared outside 
the loop processing the Map elements (named 'entry' in the XML stream), and are 
not reseted to null for each 'entry' processed.
So if the 'key' or 'value' tag is absent (meaning the data is null), the code 
still points to the deserialized data from the previous entry.

This could be fixed by either moving the declaration of those 2 variables 
inside the loop, or reseting their values to null at the beginning of the loop.


Snippet from the function :

            Object key = null;
            Object value = null;

            while (reader.hasMoreElementReaders()) {
                MessageReader entryReader = reader.getNextElementReader();

                if (entryReader.getName().equals(getEntryName())) {
                    while (entryReader.hasMoreElementReaders()) {
                        MessageReader evReader = 
entryReader.getNextElementReader();

                        if (evReader.getName().equals(getKeyName())) {
                            key = kType.readObject(evReader, context);
                        } else if (evReader.getName().equals(getValueName())) {
                            value = vType.readObject(evReader, context);
                        } else {
                            readToEnd(evReader);
                        }
                    }

                    map.put(key, value);
                } else {
                    readToEnd(entryReader);
                }
            }


Note: this issue was already present in XFire

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