You are welcome. Now, if you are still happy by tomorrow (after you have tried your more complex use cases), I'd appreciate if you helped us a little bit by providing us with some input for e.g. a HOW-TO document for using Castor in a polymorphic situation. Is that something I can count on ?
Werner Ander Garcia Gangoiti wrote: > Thanks for your help. I have managed to map a simple case using > polymorphism, tomorrow aI will try a more advanced example that address my > needs. > > Regards > > Ander > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Werner Guttmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: martes, 22 de mayo de 2007 15:44 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: AW: [castor-user][xml] conditional unmarshalling > > Ander, > > Castor supports polymorphism out of the box without having to resort to > (such conditional) constructs as shown below. In other words, imagine you’d > have XML similar to > > <beings> > <person> > <name>Ander</name> > <person> > </contact> > <contact type="pet"> > <animal> > <type>dog</type> > <name>Fibi</name> > <animal> > </beings> > > Given there’s complete class mappings for <person> and <animal> classes, > Castor will be able to deal with this automagically. Have a look at > > http://www.castor.org/xml-mapping.html#5.-xsi:type > > in particular for a more detailed explanation. > > Werner > > > ________________________________________ > Von: Ander Garcia Gangoiti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007 10:06 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [castor-user][xml] conditional unmarshalling > > Dear All > > I have an xml file similar to the following one, where a nested element > depends on and attribute of its father : > > <contact type="friend"> > <person> > <name>Ander</name> > <person> > </contact> > <contact type="pet"> > <animal> > <type>dog</type> > <name>Fibi</name> > <animal> > </contact> > > I would like to express: > if (contact_type =friend) > marshall/unmarshall person > if (contact_type =pet) > marshall/unmarshall pet > > Is it possible to express this conditional marshalling on the mapping file? > Is there any other way to do it? > > Thank you very much > > Ander > > ________________________________________ > De: Justin Permar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: martes, 22 de > mayo de 2007 5:40 > Para: [email protected] > Asunto: [castor-user] code generation: schema type restriction "re-defines" > the type of an attribute from the base type All, > > I am using Castor to generate classes directly from a rather large and > complex schema. I use automatic conflict resolution set to true as part of > the following binding properties: > > org.exolab.castor.builder.javaclassmapping=type > org.exolab.castor.builder.javaVersion=5.0 > org.exolab.castor.builder.automaticConflictResolution=true > > Nearly all the code that is generated works very well, but there is just one > type of definition in the schema that Castor seems to have a bit of trouble > with. > > I have a type that is defined as follows: > > <xs:complexType name="ON" mixed="true"> > <xs:annotation> > <xs:documentation> > A name for an organization. A sequence > of name parts. > </xs:documentation> > </xs:annotation> > <xs:complexContent mixed="true"> > <xs:restriction base="EN"> > <xs:sequence> > <xs:choice > minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"> > > <xs:element name="delimiter"> > > <xs:complexType mixed="true"> > > <xs:complexContent mixed="true"> > > <xs:restriction base="en.del"> > > <xs:attribute name="partType" > type="cs_OrganizationNamePartType" fixed="DEL"/> <!—This > partType “overrides” the partType in en.del with a new type > cs_OrganizationNamePartType ? > > </xs:restriction> > > </xs:complexContent> > > </xs:complexType> > > </xs:element> > … <!—snip ? > </xs:complexType> > > Note that the above element named “delimiter” is a restriction of a type > named “en.del”. This type is defined as follows: > > <xs:complexType name="en.del" mixed="true"> > <xs:complexContent mixed="true"> > <xs:restriction base="ENXP"> > <xs:attribute > name="partType" type="cs_EntityNamePartType" fixed="DEL"/> > <!—cs_EntityNamePartType is the type specified for this attribute here ? > </xs:restriction> > </xs:complexContent> > </xs:complexType> > > Notice that attribute “partType” is defined in the “en.del” complexType and > also “re-defined” in “delimiter” element in the complex type “ON”. I say > re-defined because the type of the attribute named “partType” is > “cs_EntityNamePartType” in the “en.del” complex type, whereas it is of type > “cs_OrganizationNamePartType” in the “delimiter” attribute in the complex > type named “ON”. > > I’m sure you can already tell that this is quite “suspicious”! > > When I try to generate code for the ON complex type, there is something like > this that is the output: > > public class ONDelimiter extends castor.test.En_del implements > java.io.Serializable { > > > //----------------/ > //- Constructors -/ > //----------------/ > > public ONDelimiter() { > super(); > > setPartType(castor.test.types.Cs_OrganizationNamePartType.valueOf("DEL")); > ///ERROR!!!! > setContent(""); > } > > … <snip> > > Now, the En_del class is generated with a method of the following signature: > > /** > * Field _partType. > */ > private castor.test.types.Cs_EntityNamePartType _partType = > castor.test.types.Cs_EntityNamePartType.valueOf("DEL"); > > > //----------------/ > //- Constructors -/ > //----------------/ > > public En_del() { > super(); > setPartType(castor.test.types.Cs_EntityNamePartType.valueOf("DEL")); > setContent(""); > } > > > //-----------/ > //- Methods -/ > //-----------/ > > <snip!> > > /** > * Returns the value of field 'partType'. > * > * @return the value of field 'PartType'. > */ > public castor.test.types.Cs_EntityNamePartType getPartType( > ) { > return this._partType; > } > > <snip!> > > /** > * Sets the value of field 'partType'. > * > * @param partType the value of field 'partType'. > */ > public void setPartType( > final castor.test.types.Cs_EntityNamePartType partType) { > this._partType = partType; > } > > <snip!> > > Of course the ONDelimiter class extends from the En_del class. The En_del > class has a field named _partType that is of type > castor.test.types.Cs_EntityNamePartType. Because ONDelimiter subclasses > En_del, it can’t set _partType to a > castor.test.types.Cs_OrganizationNamePartType instance like it attempts to > in the ONDelimiter constructor. And the ONDelimiter class has no field of > that type either. > > If it helps, here are the definition of Cs_EntityNamePartType and > Cs_OrganizationNamePartType snippets of the schema: > > <xs:simpleType name="cs_EntityNamePartType"> > <xs:restriction base="cs"> > <xs:enumeration value="FAM"/> > <xs:enumeration value="GIV"/> > <xs:enumeration value="PFX"/> > <xs:enumeration value="SFX"/> > <xs:enumeration value="DEL"/> > </xs:restriction> > </xs:simpleType> > > <xs:simpleType name="cs_OrganizationNamePartType"> > <xs:restriction base="cs_EntityNamePartType"> > <xs:enumeration value="PFX"/> > <xs:enumeration value="SFX"/> > <xs:enumeration value="DEL"/> > </xs:restriction> > </xs:simpleType> > > > > I’m hoping that you might be able to help me with either a workaround > (changing the code directly is ok with me because this is the only type of > error in the Castor-generated code). I say “type” of error because this > schema has this kind of definition a number of places and the errors are all > similar. Of course, if there is a modification to the binding file that I > can make for either of these types then that is better! One idea might be to > not have one type extend from another, and just have all the classes > separate concrete classes. Is that a possibility in Castor? > > Thank you in advance for taking some time with this matter. I appreciate any > feedback and/or help you can give me. > > ---------------------------------------------- > Justin Permar > Research Programmer > Department of Biomedical Informatics > The Ohio State University > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
