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goffinf · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:13 am Post subject:

WBIMB v5.1

I am using toBitstream on an MbElement. In some circumstance it works fine in others not. The docs states :-

'This method causes the parser associated with the element to serialize the element and all its children.'

However it appears that it just serializes the children of the element ??

This causes a issue when the MbElement has more than 1 child, in which case an exception occurs ??

I'm not certain whether its me (most likely) or I can't use toBitstream in the way that I want to. Here is some example code :-

In an MB flow this data is stored in Environment.myStuff :-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Numbers>
<Odds>
<One>1</One>
<Three>3</Three>
<Five>5</Five>
</Odds>
<Evens>
<Two>2</Two>
<Four>4</Four>
<Six>6</Six>
</Evens>
</Numbers>

Now in a custom node (various bits removed for clarity) :-

public String doStuff(String inputXml, Vector paramsVector, MbMessageAssembly contact admin) throws Exception {

MbMessage localMessage = contact admin.getGlobalEnvironment();
// returns 'Root'
MbElement localRoot = localMessage.getRootElement();

MbElement xmlnsSP = localRoot.getFirstElementByPath("myStuff");

// So at this stage MbElement is pointing to Environment.myStuff

MbElement documentSource;

try {
documentSource = xmlnsSP.getFirstElementByPath("Numbers");

// BLOWS UP HERE
byte[] xmlData = documentSource.toBitstream(null, null, null, 0, 0, 0);

xmlString = new String(xmlData, "ascii");
....

If I remove the <Evens> structure from the data in the Environment the toBitstream method works successfully ???

Cheers

Fraser.