Hi,

I am attempting to use Betwixt to serialize out my Hibernate objects. Unfortunantly, in my serialized file, the name of the class is the enhanced one via CGLIB:

Workorder$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$caeab843

what I really want is:

Workorder

How can I tell Hibernate to update/remove the dynamic proxy that was generated?

Alternatively, anyone recommend a xml <--> java serializer that doesn't require scheme/mapping files? I saw the Hibernate XmlDatabinder and the other ReverserXmlDataBinder in Jira, but they haven't been committed.

This is with Hibernate 2.1.

Eric

I am not sure, but probably it is possible to use custom introspector for Betwixt.

Check out: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/

From the website: Java Serialization to XML (JSX) allows users to write and read any plain old Java object graph as XML data with one line of code. The data can be verified and manipulated with standard XML tools like DOM, JDOM, and XSLT. JSX automatically creates a file format/wire protocol for all Java objects, so that it is always up to date as the code evolves. It also provides the evolution techniques of Java Object Serialization for back-compatibility, and you can also modify the XML directly. Unlike databinders such as JAXB and Castor, no explicit mapping is required, and JSX works for all objects.

I'll definitly take a look at it.. Do you think it will have any issues with the proxies? Or can I tweak it so that when it sees Workorder$$CGLIB proxy it knows that I really want a Workorder object?

Is there nothing like Session.makeNotProxy(proxiedObject) that would return the concrete implementation?
Eric

There is a public helper class in "proxy" package, see API docs I do not remember its name.

I had the same problem found the helper class

net.sf.hibernate.proxy.HibernateProxyHelper.getClass(Object)

I had this same problem and solved it using a customised Betwixt "ClassNormalizer", as follows:

public class HibernateProxyClassNormalizer extends ClassNormalizer {

public HibernateProxyClassNormalizer() {
super();
}

public Class getNormalizedClass(Object object) {
if(object == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot get class for null object.");
}
else if(object instanceof net.sf.cglib.proxy.Factory) {
return normalize(object.getClass().getSuperclass());
}
else {
return normalize(object.getClass());
}
}
}

Then register this class with Betwixt via:

beanWriter.getXMLIntrospector().getConfiguration().setClassNormalizer(new HibernateProxyClassNormalizer());

Betwixt will then always be able to identify the correct class name for it's *.betwixt file lookup.