Blank data when customers send CDATA in 1.8.0

[joey fedor]

Hi,

Ignore this if it is a duplicate, It seemed to be undeliverable on my
other email.

Recently we updated AXIS2 from version 1.7.9 to version 1.8.0. After
running our server we quickly found some adverse behavior from the update.
Our clients will send a soap envelope to the server with several fields. If
one of these fields is wrapped in a CDATA tag it gets parsed as an empty
string.


*For example:*
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
                  xmlns:web=http://testsite.partner.inbound>
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
        <web:upload>

            <!--Optional:-->
            <web:username>username</web:username>

            <!--Optional:-->
            <web:password>password</web:password>

            <!--Optional:-->
            <web:data><![CDATA[TestCdata]]></web:data>

        </web:upload>
    </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>


*Code generated using wsdl2java:*
XMLStreamReader parser =
root.getBody().getFirstElement().getXMLStreamReaderWithoutCaching();

Upload u = Upload.Factory.parse(parser);

String username = u.getUsername());
String password = u.getPassword());
String data = u.getData());



*our expected results for each variable is:*username =  “username”
password = “password”
data = “TestCdata”


*but we are getting the following:*username =  “username”
password = “password”
data = “”

After some digging this appears to be due to a change in the way that the
newer version of axiom handles preserving Cdata as well as its change in
default coalescing. I have been reading through the axiom userguide with
the recommendation of changing javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing=true (ive
tried false as well), but its seems to have no effect.

Am I missing something here or is CDATA not something that Axis2 is able to
handle as of 1.8.0 ?

Thank you,
Joey