It looks like you are still using XFire. Suggestion #1 is to upgrade to CXF.
Dan
On Monday 14 June 2010 6:06:08 pm javian wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We are facing the following problem:
>
> We send object trees to a webservice which are bound to Java classes by
> Aegis and persisted by Hibernate. There are some associations which are not
> cascaded to the database, e.g. Bill->Product, because the Products are sent
> before separately and during persisting of the Bill, only the references to
> the Product objects are needed in the object tree.
>
> What we want to do is to create a WSDL that forbids adding complete
> Products to a Bill by defining a ProductRef object as the type of the
> Bill.products property. The ProductRef object has only an ID.
> The thing is that there should not be ProductRef classes on the server side
> (on the client side, of course, ProductRef client stubs will be generated
> from the WSDL). Product Java classes should directly be mapped to a WSDL
> ProductRef datatype.
>
> While this works for non-array properties with the following mapping:
>
> <mapping>
> <property name="description"
> type="com.example.TextRefType"
> typeName="{example.com}TextRef"
> />
> </mapping>
>
> and the following Custom Type
>
> public class TextRefType extends ObjectType {
> private static final Class<com.example.Text> componentClass =
> com.example.Text.class;
> protected QName qname = QName.valueOf ("{http://example.com}TextRef";);
>
> public TextRefType()
> {
> setTypeClass(componentClass);
> setSchemaType(qname);
> }
>
> public Object readObject(MessageReader reader, MessageContext context)
> throws XFireFault
> {
> ...
>
> return new Text();
> }
>
> public void writeObject(Object object, MessageWriter writer,
> MessageContext context)
> {
> ...
> }
>
> we did not get it to work for collection types, like the Bill->Product
> association.
> It is possible to specify a class, that should be mapped using the
> componentType=... attribute, but obviously this does not work using a
> Custom Type as componentType=.... :
>
> <mapping>
> <property name="products"
> componentType="com.example.ProductRefType"
> />
> </mapping>
>
> The exception I get is
>
> 19:31:55,937 ERROR [XFireServletController] Couldn't invoke servlet
> request.
> org.codehaus.xfire.XFireRuntimeException: Couldn't create type for
> property depe
> ndencies on class org.codehaus.xfire.aegis.type.basic.ObjectType: Cannot
> create
> mapping for java.util.Set, unspecified component type for interface
> java.util.Se
> t
>
> Any clues how to handle that scenario are most welcome!!
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Daniel Kulp
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