From: Sakala, Adinarayana <ASAKALA_at_iona.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:58:49 -0500

Hi,

I am using JAXB implementation that ships with JAX-WS2.0 EA3.
Here is the schema that i am working with,

<complexType name="OccuringStruct1">
   <sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
     <element name="varFloat" type="xsd:float" nillable="true"/>
     <element name="varInt" type="xsd:int" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="10"/>
     <element name="varString" type="xsd:string"/>
   </sequence>
</complexType>

The JAXB generated code is attached (OccuringStruct1.java).

Client code:
  public void testOccuringStruct1() throws Exception {
        OccuringStruct1 x = new OccuringStruct1();
        List<Serializable> theList = x.getVarFloatAndVarIntAndVarString();
        theList.add(2);
        theList.add("x1");

        OccuringStruct1 yOriginal = new OccuringStruct1();
        theList = yOriginal.getVarFloatAndVarIntAndVarString();
        theList.add(22);
        theList.add("y");

        Holder<OccuringStruct1> y = new Holder<OccuringStruct1>(yOriginal);
        Holder<OccuringStruct1> z = new Holder<OccuringStruct1>();

        OccuringStruct1 ret = docClient.testOccuringStruct1(x, y, z);

        System.out.println(++i + "/" + test_count + ":testOccuringStruct1 complete");
    }

The generated XML Message by JAXB Runtime is,
<ns4:testOccuringStruct1 xmlns:ns4=http://objectweb.org/type_test/doc
        xmlns:ns5="http://objectweb.org/type_test/types">
  <ns4:x>
    <ns5:varInt>2</ns5:varInt>
    <ns5:varString>x1</ns5:varString>
  </ns4:x>
  <ns4:y>
    <ns5:varInt>22</ns5:varInt>
    <ns5:varString>y</ns5:varString>
  </ns4:y>
</ns4:testOccuringStruct1>

The above message looks wrong to me because the nillable element varFloat was ignored in the serialization of XML.
I would have expected the xml message to look like,
<ns4:testOccuringStruct1 xmlns:ns4=http://objectweb.org/type_test/doc
        xmlns:ns5="http://objectweb.org/type_test/types"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <ns4:x>
    <ns5:varFloat xsi:nil="true"/>
    <ns5:varInt>2</ns5:varInt>
    <ns5:varString>x1</ns5:varString>
  </ns4:x>
  <ns4:y>
    <ns5:varFloat xsi:nil="true"/>
    <ns5:varInt>22</ns5:varInt>
    <ns5:varString>y</ns5:varString>
  </ns4:y>
</ns4:testOccuringStruct1>

Is this a known issue with JAXB2.0 EA3 or am i doing something wrong?

Any help is really appreciated.

thanks,
Adi Sakala