Ralf/Stephen

Thank you again - that fixed my problem, and got me thinking more about what
I'm doing - very good...

Ralf said:
> There is no problem asking us to help you out with information that is
> missing in docs. This just reminds us that there are things missing ;-)
> Having said that we would be happy to get doc contributions also from
> your side in form of a howto. If you managed to resolve a problem you
> had there may be others out there with similar problems.

Good point. I'll try and come through on a promise to describe my use case
which is to use castor to assemble the backing beans behind JSF pages. I
need to get it working first though.

I really appreciate your help though.

Tom.
 
> As far as i understand your OneWayOutputPage class, you offer
> get/setOutputList methods to the list as well as the convinience methods
> add/getOutput. As MappingTool is not able to know that the later ones
> are only to be used by your application and access the same data as the
> first 2 it included them in mapping. The solution is quite simple in
> that case, just remove the field mapping for output. The mapping should
> look like:
> 
>      <class cst:name="castortest.gamma.OneWayOutputPage">
>          <description>
>              Default mapping for class castortest.gamma.OneWayOutputPage
>          </description>
>          <map-to cst:xml="one-way-output-page"/>
>          <field cst:name="outputList" cst:type="java.lang.Object"
>                 cst:collection="arraylist">
>              <bind-xml name="output-list" node="element"/>
>          </field>
>      </class>
> 
> Regards
> Ralf
> 
> 
> Thomas A Hurley schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the following class which I've fed into the MappingTool to
> generate a
> > mapping file. When I attempt to marshal an instance of the java object
> the
> > exception
> >
> > org.exolab.castor.mapping.MappingException: The method getOutput in
> class
> > castortest.gamma.OneWayOutputPage accepting/returning object of type
> > interface java.util.Enumeration was not found
> >
> > is thrown. I don't understand where the 'output' property is coming from
> > though it kind of makes sense when I look at the mapping file. Should I
> just
> > add a method enumerating the contents of the ArrayList?
> >
> > I would be grateful if anyone could direct me to some good castor
> resources
> > with examples on the web as I hate to be bothering you guys so often
> with
> > such basic questions.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Tom.
> >
> > ===========
> > Java Object
> > ===========
> > public class OneWayOutputPage {
> >
> >   private ArrayList<OneWayOutput> outputList = new
> > ArrayList<OneWayOutput>();
> >
> >   /**
> >    * Creates a new instance of OneWayOutputPage
> >    */
> >   public OneWayOutputPage() {}
> >
> >   public void setOutputList(ArrayList<OneWayOutput> outputList) {
> >     this.outputList = outputList;
> >   }
> >   public ArrayList<OneWayOutput> getOutputList() {
> >     return outputList;
> >   }
> >
> >   public void addOutput(OneWayOutput oneWayOutput) {
> >     outputList.add(oneWayOutput);
> >   }
> >   public OneWayOutput getOutput(int index) {
> >     return outputList.get(index);
> >   }
> > }
> >
> > ============
> > Mapping File
> > ============
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <mapping xmlns="http://castor.exolab.org/";
> > xmlns:cst="http://castor.exolab.org/";>
> >     <description>Castor generated mapping file</description>
> >     <class cst:name="castortest.gamma.OneWayOutputPage">
> >         <description>Default mapping for class
> > castortest.gamma.OneWayOutputPage</description>
> >         <map-to cst:xml="one-way-output-page"/>
> >         <field cst:name="outputList" cst:type="java.lang.Object"
> > cst:collection="arraylist">
> >             <bind-xml name="output-list" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="output"
> >             cst:type="castortest.gamma.OneWayOutput"
> > cst:collection="enumerate">
> >             <bind-xml name="output" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >     </class>
> >     <class cst:name="castortest.gamma.OneWayOutput">
> >         <description>Default mapping for class
> > castortest.gamma.OneWayOutput</description>
> >         <map-to cst:xml="one-way-output"/>
> >         <field cst:name="columnTotal" cst:type="int">
> >             <bind-xml name="column-total" node="attribute"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="twoWay" cst:type="boolean">
> >             <bind-xml name="two-way" node="attribute"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="oneWay" cst:type="boolean">
> >             <bind-xml name="one-way" node="attribute"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="rows" cst:type="castortest.gamma.ResponseRow"
> > cst:collection="array">
> >             <bind-xml name="rows" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="questionText" cst:type="java.lang.String">
> >             <bind-xml name="question-text" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >     </class>
> >     <class cst:name="castortest.gamma.ResponseRow">
> >         <description>Default mapping for class
> > castortest.gamma.ResponseRow</description>
> >         <map-to cst:xml="response-row"/>
> >         <field cst:name="count" cst:type="int">
> >             <bind-xml name="count" node="attribute"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="response" cst:type="java.lang.String">
> >             <bind-xml name="response" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="width" cst:type="java.lang.String">
> >             <bind-xml name="width" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >         <field cst:name="percent" cst:type="java.lang.String">
> >             <bind-xml name="percent" node="element"/>
> >         </field>
> >     </class>
> > </mapping>
> >
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