[AXIS2-4818] Inheritance on method parameters not working

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Environment: Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04, JDK 1.6u21, Tomcat 6.0
• Assignee: Amila Chinthaka Suriarachchi
• Reporter: Chetan Saundankar
• Created: 13/Sep/10 20:24
• Updated: 04/Jan/11 10:17
• Resolved: 04/Jan/11 10:17

Description

I have a test web service with following methods & classes,

Method
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public String addPerson(Person p) {
if(p instanceof Employee) {
return "Employee";
}
return "Person";
}
Note: Method is annotated with @WebMethod, @WebParam annotations, so is web service with @WebService.

Classes
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Class Person {
private String name;

// getters and setters
}

Class Employee extends Person{
private int employeeNo;

// getters and setters
}

Observations
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In spite of client sending the serialized Employee object the web service is always taking it as a Person object. I have checked the soap packet on client with firebug tool, employee number is present in the payload. I also checked soap MESSAGE on server & there I dont see employee number attribute.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: AXIS2-3418 Unexpected subelement - pojo - Inherited Complex Type
• is duplicated by: AXIS2-4092 Subclass elements in web service response returned with type="fully qualified class name" instead of xsi:type="ns:SchemaType"