Re: [castor-user] Castor's Class descriptor code

[Ralf Joachim]

Hi Praveen, as already suggested on IRC it will be best to create a new jira issue for this and attach a minimal test case to reproduce the problem. Also note that the failure is difficult to reproduce at it is caused by processing sequence of complex types which depends on hash algorith of HashTable. To me it sound reasonable to replace HashTable by LinkedHashMap as you suggested. If possible also attach a patch for this change. Regards Ralf Gattu, Praveen schrieb: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@castor.codehaus.org/msg01049.html http://www.mail-archive.com/user@castor.codehaus.org/msg02437.html   I am facing similar issue that is described in the above two threads. I debugged this issue and this is what I found.   When Castor is generating source code for the complex types in org.exolab.castor.builder.SourceGenerator.java, it calls getComplexTypes on org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.Schema. However the list of complex types that are returned are not in any particular order. In my case the order in which these complex types were generated was such that, Complex type A is processed first which contains complex type B. Type “B” is declared as abstract. However source code for type “B” is not yet generated, so as far as castor code is concerned it doesn’t know this is a abstract type.   Now when it generates the class descriptor class for type “A”  and creates the XMLFieldHandler inner class  and implements the newInstance method, it doesn’t know if “B” is abstract or not, and by default it is false. As a result “B” is getting instantiated.   Once the class “B” is created, it is correctly identified as abstract, and the class descriptor of “A” fails to compile.   Currently I fixed this issue by having code such that complex types are processed in a predictable order.                 Any pointers on how to fix this correctly? Isn’t it a good idea to process the complex types in the order that was defined in the schema?   Thanks, -Praveen -- Syscon Ingenieurbüro für Meß- und Datentechnik GmbH Ralf Joachim Raiffeisenstraße 11 72127 Kusterdingen Germany Tel. +49 7071 3690 52 Mobil: +49 173 9630135 Fax +49 7071 3690 98 Internet: www.syscon.eu E-Mail: ralf.joac...@syscon.eu Sitz der Gesellschaft: D-72127 Kusterdingen Registereintrag: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 382295 Geschäftsleitung: Jens Joachim, Ralf Joachim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email