After exchanging some information with Jochen, he ran some tests which confirmed for him that this could not be a problem with XmlRpc.
After some extensive debugging, I found the problem, which, due to the size of the packet and the complicatedness of my code, turned out to be a very silly but hard-to-find typo in my code. So I will now confirm Jochen's diagnosis. My bad! With regard to the hard-to-findness of this bug, it would have been much simpler if I would have had at hand a utility that could perform an improved toString() on an arbitrary Object returned by XmlRpc. In particular, one that properly expands Object[]s. Does anyone on this list have a utility that he uses for this purpose? Steve Cohen -----Original Message----- From: COHEN, STEVEN M (SBCSI) Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:58 PM To: xmlrpc-dev@ws.apache.org Subject: RE: Is there a "distributon" for ws-commons-java5 Jochen: As my example includes proprietary data, I am sending it to you at your private gmail address as shown below. Please check there and you will see my example. Steve Cohen -----Original Message----- From: Jochen Wiedmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:24 PM To: xmlrpc-dev@ws.apache.org Subject: Re: Is there a "distributon" for ws-commons-java5 On 10/5/06, COHEN, STEVEN M (SBCSI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /** > * @param o an Object[] or List returned from an XML-RPC array > type > * @return a List containing the same elements as the array > * @throws ClassCastException if o is not an Object[] or a List > */ > protected static List getAsList(Object o) > { > if (o instanceof List && o != null) { > return (List) o; > } > List newlist = new LinkedList(); > > if (o != null) { > newlist.addAll(Arrays.asList((Object[]) o)); > } > return newlist; > } > > If the first three lines are commented out, ClassCastExceptions result. The only reason I can think of is that you were using the LocalTransport (as opposed to the LocalStreamTransport). That may be, because this transport simply returns what you give him. Otherwise, I refuse to believe this unless you show me an example, sorry. Note, that the result objects are created by instances of TypeParser. In particular, there is an ObjectArrayParser. However, there is no such thing as a ListParser. Jochen -- My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. (Jack Benny) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
