Mailing-List: contact commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Message-ID: <3F70CF7D.6010801@phreaker.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:55:57 -0700
From: __matthewHawthorne <matth@phreaker.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
 rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Jakarta Commons Users List <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [betwixt] general confusion about BeanReader
References: <3F6F5EB0.9020503@phreaker.net>
 <DA4E6584-EE0E-11D7-B54D-003065DC754C@apache.org>
In-Reply-To: <DA4E6584-EE0E-11D7-B54D-003065DC754C@apache.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Not betwixt, just what's underneath: beanutils, collections, digester, 
and logging.

I can't remember exactly where the jar came from... I think it may have 
been j2ee 1.4 beta 1 which was released a few months ago.


robert burrell donkin wrote:

> the new j2ee sdk includes betwixt? i suppose that it's nice to be wanted 
> but i'd have hoped that sun would have realized that betwixt is an alpha 
> for a reason...
> 
> - robert
> 
> On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 09:42 PM, __matthewHawthorne wrote:
> 
>> I copied a test case directly from the betwixt source into my test class,
>>  and it failed.  That's when I knew something strange was going on.
>>
>> It turns out that the problem was unrelated to betwixt.  I had 
>> j2ee.jar from the latest j2ee sdk in my classpath, which includes its 
>> own digester,
>>  beanutils, and betwixt classes.  I was trying to use the latest version,
>>  but the j2ee classes must have taken precedence.
>>
>> What a weird problem!  Thanks for your help anyways.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> robert burrell donkin wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 11:47 PM, __matthewHawthorne wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've spent the entire day attempting to read a bean with betwixt... 
>>>> I've run out of ideas.
>>>>
>>>> For example, if my bean is named Person:
>>>>
>>>> class Person {
>>>>     String getName()
>>>>     setName(String)
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I've tried:
>>>>
>>>> BeanReader.registerBeanClass(Person.class)
>>>> BeanReader.registerBeanClass("Person", Person.class)
>>>>
>>>> But BeanReader.parse() still returns null.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here are some questions:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Can XML written from a BeanWriter be parsed by a BeanReader 
>>>> without the use of .betwixt files?  Since I didn't change any of the 
>>>> configuration, I assumed that both could read and write easily, but 
>>>> this isn't happening.
>>>
>>> yes. betwixt should work in a reasonable manner without a .betwixt file.
>>>
>>>> 2) Is it necessary to register every bean before calling 
>>>> BeanReader.parse(
>>>> )?  In other words, if I have nested beans, do I need to register 
>>>> all of them or just the root?
>>>
>>> you should just have to register the root of the graph.
>>>
>>>> The documentation is helpful, but I seem to be missing something.
>>>>
>>>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> are you using the alpha release or the latest code?
>>> it would also help if you could supply an example of the xml document 
>>> you'
>>> re trying to parse.
>>> - robert
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
>> For additional commands, e-mail: commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org
>>


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org