Hi
I would like to validate my entire instance document against an XML schema during the unmarshalling process and accumulate all the validation exceptions so that I may send them back to the document creator so they may all be fixed. Right now, Castor is throwing the first ValidationException and stopping the schema validation process. Is there a way to tell Castor to validate the entire document before stopping (i.e. make a ValidationException a non-fatal error)?
My Castor driver method:
//unmarshal xml
boolean isSuccessful = true;
Reader toParse = new StringReader((String) xmlToParse);
try
{
Mapping mapping = new Mapping();
mapping.loadMapping(mapFileName);
Unmarshaller un = new Unmarshaller(castorClass);
un.setMapping(mapping );
un.setWhitespacePreserve(true);
un.setValidation(true);
try
{
castorVO = (AbstractCastorVO) un.unmarshal(toParse);
}
catch (ValidationException ex)
{
parserMessageList.add(ex.getMessage());
}
catch(MarshalException ex)
{
parserMessageList.add(ex.getMessage());
}
toParse.close();
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
isSuccessful = false;
parserMessageList.add(ex.getMessage());
}
catch (MappingException ex)
{
isSuccessful = false;
parserMessageList.add(ex.getMessage());
}
catch (MarshalException ex)
{
isSuccessful = false;
parserMessageList.add(ex.getMessage());
}
return isSuccessful;
My castor.properties settings:
# True if xml documents should be validated by the SAX Parser
#
org.exolab.castor.parser.validation=true
# Per Patty - set to false when generating code
# then set to true for un/marshalling
org.exolab.castor.parser.namespaces=true
# True if all documents should be validated by the marshalling framework
#
org.exolab.castor.marshalling.validation=true
org.exolab.castor.unmarshalling.validation=true
org.exolab.castor.sax.features=http://xml.org/sax/features/validation,\
http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema,\
http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema-full-checking
# Comma separated list of SAX 2 features that should be enabled
# for the default parser.
#
#org.exolab.castor.features=
Thank you for your help
Patty
