[CXF-2720] MapType doesn't deserialize subclass instances

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.7
• Component/s: Aegis Databinding

Environment

All

• Estimated Complexity: Novice
• Assignee: Daniel Kulp
• Reporter: Michael Berkowitz
• Created: 18/Mar/10 01:11
• Updated: 23/Mar/10 02:59
• Resolved: 18/Mar/10 17:16

Description

Given an object of type Map<TKey, TValue>, where, say, TValue is a base class extended by TValuePrime, when a serialized instance contains a value of type TValuePrime, MapType will try to deserialize it as a TValue, ignoring the fact that it's really an instance of TValuePrime. In many cases this will throw an exception when trying to set a member that exists only in TValuePrime. (We have observed this for the value class, but it should be true of the key class as well).

We have fixed this - as far as we can tell - by swiping code from ArrayType, which handles these things correctly. We're attaching our new version of MapType.java.

Lacking a deep understand of the Aegis code, we did this by intuition and trial-and-error, so it may be inefficient or even technically incorrect, but so far it works for us. Please get this fix, or its functional equivalent, into the codebase.

Thanks in advance.