Hi Michael, To me it seems you might have 2 different jars around for the same schema or some classloader issue. I would just make sure first it does run correctly from command line.
Cezar On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 13:39 -0800, Michael Bishop wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm experiencing a weird issue in trying to load documents in > XMLBeans. I'm working with a NetBeans platform application and we use > XMLBeans extensively throughout the application. This issue is a > "first" for me and I'm not sure how to proceed. > > I have an object that stores XML data as a String. So, elsewhere in > my application, I have something like this: > > MyDocument doc = MyDocument.Factory.newInstance(); > ... // populate stuff here. > String myText = doc.xmlText(); > > Elsewhere in my application, I want to validate that the String I'm > receiving is indeed a valid instance of that document: > > // Shortened for brevity's sake. > public boolean isValid(final String input) { > try { > MyDocument.Factory.Parse(input); > return true; > } catch (Exception ex) { > } > > return false; > } > > I get this perplexing error: > > java.lang.ClassCastException: myPackage.impl.MyDocumentImpl cannot be > cast to myPackage.MyDocument > > So, I put the whole thing in a unit test. I made a document, wrote it > to a String, then parsed it again. It works in a unit test. So there > must be something going wrong with the environment in my application. > Unfortunately, I don't know what that is, nor how to troubleshoot. > Here's what I know: > > - The XMLBeans data is in a single module. There should be no > duplicate classes. > - I checked the ClassLoader of the MyDocument and MyDocumentImpl > classes. They're the same. > - I load/edit/save other XMLBeans documents throughout the application > without issue. > - The string data is stored as child text in another XML element. > This may be relevant: > > String xmlText = myDocument.xmlText(); > myOtherElement.setStringValue(xmlText); > ... > String textToValidate = myOtherElement.getStringValue(); > MyDocument.Factory.Parse(textToValidate); > > Could this be mangling the structure? It looks fine when I log the > value. > > Anyway, further suggestions would be great. > > Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@xmlbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@xmlbeans.apache.org