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MOXy support for inheritance (Java -> XML) [message #658209]

Mon, 07 March 2011 12:26

Xavier Coulon

Messages: 58
Registered: July 2009

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Hello,

I'm currently evaluating MOXy in the case of unmarshalling an input XML fragment file into a Java class (or set of classes).

The Java class itself inherits from generic business classes, and most of the properties/attributes belong to the superclasses. Since i cannot modify those business classes, I use the external metadata facility provided by MOXy to configure the XML->Java mappings.

Here's a sample of that metadata config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xml-bindings
	xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm  eclipselink/xsds/eclipselink_oxm_2_2.xsd"
    package-name="xyz.integration.stocks.domain">
 
  <java-types>
    <java-type name="xyz.integration.stocks.domain.Stock"
      xml-accessor-type="PUBLIC_MEMBER" >
      <xml-root-element name="stock" />
      <xml-type name="stock" />
      <java-attributes>
        <xml-element java-attribute="ref" 
          xml-path="ref/text()" />
      </java-attributes>
    </java-type>
  </java-types>

</xml-bindings>

Starting a JUnit test case, I get the following warning message :

Ignoring attribute [ref] on class [xyz.integration.stocks.domain.IntegrationStock] as no Property was generated for it

As expected from the message above, the mapping is skipped and my result class property 'ref' is null...
How can I tell MOXy to support such an inheritance ?

Thank you in advance.
Regards
/Xavier

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Re: MOXy support for inheritance (Java -> XML) [message #658262 is a reply to message #658209]

Mon, 07 March 2011 15:56

Blaise Doughan

Messages: 163
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Xavier,

You can fix this by using the bindings file to mark the super class (GenericBusinessClass) transient:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xml-bindings
    xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/oxm  eclipselink/xsds/eclipselink_oxm_2_2.xsd"
    package-name="xyz.integration.stocks.domain">
 
  <java-types>
    <java-type name="xyz.integration.stocks.domain.GenericBusinessClass" xml-transient="true"/>
    <java-type name="xyz.integration.stocks.domain.Stock"
      xml-accessor-type="PUBLIC_MEMBER" >
      <xml-root-element name="stock" />
      <xml-type name="stock" />
      <java-attributes>
        <xml-element java-attribute="ref" 
          xml-path="ref/text()" />
      </java-attributes>
    </java-type>
  </java-types>

</xml-bindings>

-Blaise

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Re: MOXy support for inheritance (Java -> XML) [message #658315 is a reply to message #658262]

Mon, 07 March 2011 20:35

Xavier Coulon

Messages: 58
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hi Blaise,

Thank you very much, it works great !

I just needed to modify your answer because the GenericBusiness class was not in the same package, so I added a second eclipse-oxm.xml file for the second package.

May I ask you: where can I find a complete documentation on the xml metadata configuration ? Those options are very powerful Wink