Hmm--is the problem that the SOAP client isn't adding an xsi:type to the SOAP request or that the web service provider isn't properly acting on it (i.e., treating <person xsi:type="student"/> as a Student?) Wireshark can tell you what's on the wire (http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/blog_article_index, article #33), also you may want to try CXF's competitor Metro (http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/blog_article_index, link #3) to see if it manages any better.

Glen

On 06/07/2012 02:19 PM, Diana ALLAM wrote:
After testing @XmlSeeAlso, I can include Java inheritance to only RESTful 
services
but for SOAP it doesn't change anything, the generated xsd is the same and 
student objects
are treated as Person objects on the server.
So there is some limitations of the use of this annotation in cxf.

On 7 juin 2012, at 20:15, Glen Mazza wrote:

Dan knows more than I on this point (as well as many others :)--sorry if the 
information I had given was in error.

Glen

On 06/06/2012 06:29 PM, Diana ALLAM wrote:
Hello,

Thank you for your reply.
I tried to use @XmlSeeAlso annotation as you mentioned but it doesn't work as I 
would like.
I get also a response for my question from Gen Mazza who said there is not a 
way to do that and
  the only thing going over the wire would be a Person XML object (even if it 
is a subclass of it).

On 6 juin 2012, at 18:39, Daniel Kulp wrote:

If you add an @XmlSeeAlso annotation that points to the Student class, then
JAXB (and thus CXF) can pick up the Student class and it will appear the
schema and would properly be transfered on the wire with the appropriate
xsi:type attribute.

You can add it to the Person class (so the Person knows about it's
subclasses) or you can add it to the Service class

@XmlSeeAlso({Student.class})
public class Service  {
        public String print(Person p){
                return p.info();
        }
}

And CXF will pick it up.

Dan




On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 08:46:39 AM dallam wrote:
Hello,

I have the following simple java Class which I would like to publish as a
web service:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------ public class Service  {

        public String print(Person p){
                return p.info();
        }

}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------ I have also two classes, "Person" and its subclass "Student"
which define differently the "info()" method:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------- public class Person {

        private String name;

        public Person() {
                this.name = "diana";
        }

        public String info(){
                return "this is a person, his name is " + this.name;
        }

        public String getName(){
                return this.name;
        }

        public void setName(String name){
                this.name = name;
        }
}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------- public class Student extends Person{

private String school;

        public Student() {
                super();
                this.school="emn";
        }

        public String info(){
                return "this is a student, his name is " + this.getName() + " 
from
the
school of " + this.school;
        }

        public String getSchool(){
                return this.school;
        }

        public void setSchool(String school){
                this.school = school;
        }

}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------

The problem is by using jaxws, I didn't find the way to build a client
which would like to call the print service with a student object. Only
"person" objects are accepted.
Is there a way to do that in cxf?

The same is for JaxRS by using annotations.
For example, if I have the following post method:
---------------------------------------------------------
@POST
    @Path("/persons/")
    public Response addPerson(Person p) {  ... }
---------------------------------------------------------
and I annotated the person class with:
@XmlRootElement(name = "Person")

and the Student class which extends Person is annotated with:
@XmlRootElement(name = "Student")


I can't send to the post method an XML with a "Student" root element
because only "Person" root element is accepted.

Is there an inheritance annotation in cxf to solve this problem? if not,
why this issue is not considered
in the implementation of the cxf framework?


Best regards,

Diana



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