Re: BUG [?] in BeanUtil

[Deepal Jayasinghe <de...@opensource.lk>]

do you have the corresponding WSDL file , if so I can exactly tell
whether this is a bug or not. If you do not have the WSDL , please give
some sample Java class which I can regenerate the issue.

Thank you!
Deepal

Andrea Spinelli wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> our company is using axis2 to make available to multiple platforms a
> document management service.
>
> Documents are represented by Java beans, with a property of type
> byte[], the content of the document. We have a method which sends a
> document from the client to the server.
>
> I noticed that the content of the document is received empty or
> garbled at the server side. I googled a lot about this issue, but
> found nothing. So I tried to debug the axis2 code (using Eclipse) and
> I think I isolated the problem. The XML SOAP request contains a
> fragment like (simplified and translated):
>
> ...<document><field1>foo</field1>... <documentText>...(base64 encoded
> content>...</documentText> ... <lastField>...</lastField></document>...
>
> The axis2 code is contained in the ADB module, in the class
> org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.BeanUtil. The program iterates over
> the properties of the javabean "document" until it finds the property
> "documentText"; it recognizes it is an array and calls recursively the
> deserialize method:
>
>                            } else if (parameters.isArray()) {
>                                partObj = deserialize(parameters,
> (OMElement)parts.getParent(),
>                                        objectSupplier, prty.getName());
>
> Here "parts" is the element <documentText>, and its getParent() is
> "<document>".
>
> Then the following code is executed:
>
>            if (beanClass.isArray()) {
>                ArrayList valueList = new ArrayList();
>                Class arrayClassType = beanClass.getComponentType();
>                if ("byte".equals(arrayClassType.getName())) {
>                    return
> Base64.decode(beanElement.getFirstElement().getText());
>
> Here "beanElement" is the second parameter of "deserialize", a
> structure representing the whole <document> element.
>
> So the Base64 decoder is called on the text of the first element of
> "<document>", which is "foo" in the above example, and is actually the
> value of field1 - not good.
>
> I modified the code deleting the call to getParent (passing directly
> "parts"), and calling the Base64 decoder on the text of the current
> element:
>
>                        return Base64.decode(beanElement.getText());
>
> and it works fine for me, both from a .NET client and a axis1 client.
> Moreover, all the tests of the ADB module are OK.
>
> After all this explanation, my question is: is this a bug, or I
> misunderstood something? If my modifications are actually a fix, how
> can I submit it?
>
> TIA
>   Andrea
>
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