Re: AW: [castor-dev] Castor-JAXB Interoperability

Hi Martin,

a first comment has been posted in the JIRA issue.

Cheers
Werner

On 29.04.2010 18:15, [email protected] wrote:
> Thanks for your early reply Ralf. I've created a new jira issue as you suggested and attached a test case.
> For everyone who's interested in the topic of Castor-JAXB Interoperability:
>
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CASTOR-2904
>
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Ralf Joachim [mailto:[email protected]]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 23:31
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: [castor-dev] Castor-JAXB Interoperability
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> we appreciate any effort to make Castor more compatible with JAXB.
>
> I suggest you to create a new jira issue for the problem at hand a
> attach a minimal test case to replay the problem. I think Werner, who is
> the one familiar with that part of Castor, will take it from there.
>
> Regards
> Ralf
>
>
> [email protected] schrieb:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to extend / modify Castor to be enable it to unmarhal XML
>> that has been created by a JAXB reference implementation
>>
>> but don’t know where to start. I would be grateful if anyone could
>> provide an idea. Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Motivation:
>>
>> I'm currently facing a problem in unmarshalling XML that has been
>> created by a JAXB implementation with Castor.
>>
>> I'm wondering if it is possible to do that without specifying any
>> Castor-Mapping information.
>>
>> Basically with simple properties it works
>> (org.exolab.castor.xml.naming=mixed) but the problems arise when
>> collection types
>>
>> are involved as the way collections are marshalled/unmarshalled in
>> JAXB and Castor are slightly different.
>>
>>
>>
>> Demonstration:
>>
>>
>>
>> JavaSrc:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> private Map<Integer, Drink>  drinkList;
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> public class Drink {
>>
>>     private String drinkName;
>>
>>     private Float price;
>>
>>     private int alcoholByVolume;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> JAXB marshalling of JavaSrc:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> <drinkList>
>>
>>   <entry>
>>
>>     <key>1</key>
>>
>>      <value>
>>
>>       <alcoholByVolume>0</alcoholByVolume>
>>
>>       <drinkName>Soda</drinkName>
>>
>>       <price>0.99</price>
>>
>>      </value>
>>
>>   </entry>
>>
>>   <entry>
>>
>>   <entry>
>>
>>     <key>2</key>
>>
>>      <value>
>>
>>       <alcoholByVolume>0</alcoholByVolume>
>>
>>       <drinkName>Tonic</drinkName>
>>
>>       <price>1.99</price>
>>
>>      </value>
>>
>>   </entry>
>>
>>   <entry>
>>
>> </drinkList>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Castor produces something like this when marshalling in reflection-mode:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> <drinkList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>> xmlns:java="http://java.sun.com"
>> xsi:type="java:org.exolab.castor.mapping.MapItem">
>>
>>   <key xsi:type="java:java.lang.Integer">1</key>
>>
>>   <value alcoholByVolume="0" xsi:type="java:collectionMapping.Drink">
>>
>>    <drinkName>Soda</drinkName>
>>
>>    <price>0.99</price>
>>
>>   </value>
>>
>> </drinkList>
>>
>> <drinkList xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>> xmlns:java="http://java.sun.com"
>> xsi:type="java:org.exolab.castor.mapping.MapItem">
>>
>>   <key xsi:type="java:java.lang.Integer">2</key>
>>
>>   <value alcoholByVolume="0" xsi:type="java:collectionMapping.Drink">
>>
>>    <drinkName>Tonic</drinkName>
>>
>>    <price>1.99</price>
>>
>>   </value>
>>
>> </drinkList>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>

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