Flatten to XML bug with unit variables in classes

Hi,
I just spent about 5 hours trying to figure out why some of my class data kept resetting itself to zero. Turns out that the part that kept resetting was the part that had a unit variable in it, and that fails to load properly from the Unflatten From XML VI. It works fine if it's just a cluster, it's being in a class that's the problem.
I've attached the zip file with the example VIs.
Could I ask that someone with LV 2014 try this to see if the bug exists there?
Right now we're running 2011, but we plan a companywide shift to 2015 as soon as it comes out (and therefore, 2011 drops from extended support). I'd like to know if I can just wait for the upgrade and then it will work, or if I need to redo about ~15 variables in classes with units on them that I had been counting on loading and saving using the built-in XML functions.

I was planning on trying for a CAR only after confirming the problem hadn't been quietly fixed in the last 3 years. I couldn't find anything in the changelogs but sometimes you never know...
Now that UliB has confirmed it's still a problem I will likely do so.

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We're in the process of trying to determine if we should upgrade our TopLink from 2.5 to 9.0.4, and have not yet purchased a support contract because we haven't made the final decision yet, so I'm posting this bug here in hopes that someone can submit the bug.
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<type>oracle.toplink.mappings.AggregateObjectMapping</type>
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<association-value>csrStock.currentSizeUnitId</association-value>
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<association-value>csrStock.currentSize</association-value>
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<association-key>yPrecision</association-key>
<association-value>csrStock.currentSizePrecision</association-value>
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<type>oracle.toplink.mappings.AggregateObjectMapping</type>
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<is-null-allowed>true</is-null-allowed>
<aggregate-to-source-field-name-associations>
<association>
<association-key>unitId</association-key>
<association-value>csrStock.lotSizeUnitId</association-value>
</association>
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<association-value>csrStock.lotSize</association-value>
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<association>
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<association-value>csrStock.lotSizePrecision</association-value>
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<type>oracle.toplink.mappings.AggregateObjectMapping</type>
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     mLotSizeMapping.setIsNullAllowed(true);
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     mLotSizeMapping.addFieldNameTranslation("csrStock.lotSize", "currentSize");
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     // should be: mLotSizeMapping.addFieldNameTranslation("csrStock.lotSizePrecision", "yPrecision");
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JavaSourceGenerator.generate( inputFile, outputFile )
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Attachments:
error_variant_to_string.vi ‏40 KB

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Parse        1      0.00       0.00          0          0          0           0
Execute      1      0.00       0.01          0          1         27           0
Fetch        2     13.15      13.22      67694      72865          0           1
total        4     13.15      13.23      67694      72866         27           1
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Parsing user id: 62 (ODPS_PRIVACYVAULT)   (recursive depth: 1)
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1696485      TABLE ACCESS   MODE: ANALYZED (FULL) OF 'PERSONS' (TABLE)
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----------------------------------------   Waited ---------- ------------
db file scattered read                       1276        0.00          0.16
db file sequential read                       812        0.00          0.02
direct path read                             1552        0.00          0.61
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Execute      1      0.00       0.00          0          0         13           0
Fetch        2      0.00       0.00          0          8          0           1
total        4      0.02       0.04          0          8         13           1
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      1   SORT (ORDER BY)
      1    FILTER
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      1      NESTED LOOPS
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      1         INDEX   MODE: ANALYZED (RANGE SCAN) OF
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      1       INDEX   MODE: ANALYZED (UNIQUE SCAN) OF 'PK_PERSONS'
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Patrick, interesting insight. Thank you.
The optimizer must be peeking at my bind variables with it's eyes closed. I'm the only one testing and I've never passed %anything as a bind value. :)
Here's what I've learned since my last post:
I don't think that sqldeveloper is actually using the explain plan it says it is. When I run explain plan in sqldeveloper (with a bind variable) it shows me the exact same plan as Apex with a bind variable. However, when I run autotrace in sqldeveloper, it takes a path that matches the hard coded values, and returns results in half a second. That autotrace run is consistent with actually running the query outside of autotrace. So, I think either sqldeveloper isn't really using bind variables, OR it is using them in some other way that Apex does not, or maybe optimizer peeking works in sqldeveloper?
Using optimizer hints to tweak the plan helps. I've tried both /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ and /*+ index(ps pk_persons) */ and both drop the query to about a second. However, I'm loath to use hints because of the very dynamic nature of the query (and Tom Kyte doesn't like them either). The hints may end up hurting other variations on the query.
I also tested the query by wrapping it in a select count(1) from ([long query]) and testing the performance in sqldeveloper and in Apex. The performance in that case is identical with both bind variables and hard coded variables for both Apex and SqlDeveloper. That to me was very interesting and I went so far as to set up two bind variable report regions on the same page. One region wrapped the long query with select count(1) from (...) and the other didn't. The wrapped query ran in 0.01 seconds, the unwrapped took 15ish seconds with no other optimizations. Very strange.
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2) Insert a /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ hint when users chose the column that requires the sub-query. This obviously changes the optimizer's plan and improves query speed from 15 seconds to 1.5 seconds even with wildcards.
I will NOT be hard coding any user supplied values in the query string. As you can probably tell by the query, this is an application where sql injection would be very bad.
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I am trying to implement a WD application that will have some input fields, the value of those input fields will be used to create an xml file with a certain format and then sent to a certain application.
Apart from this i want to read an xml file back from the application and then fill some other context nodes with values from the xml file.
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P.S. Points will be rewarded to all usefull answers.
Edited by: Armin Reichert on Jun 30, 2008 6:12 PM
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This class is to created for having function for to build XML
and to get EncodedXML
and to get formated date
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import com.idb.events.Event;
public class XMLBuilder {
This attribute represents the XML version
     private static final double VERSION_NUMBER = 1.0;
This attribute represents the encoding
     private static final String ENCODING_TYPE = "UTF-16";
     /*Begin of Function to buildXML
return: String
input: Event
     public String buildXML(Event event) {
          StringBuffer xmlBuilder = new StringBuffer("<?xml version=\"");
          xmlBuilder.append(VERSION_NUMBER);
          xmlBuilder.append("\" encoding=\"");
          xmlBuilder.append(ENCODING_TYPE);
          xmlBuilder.append("\" ?>");
          xmlBuilder.append("<event>");
          xmlBuilder.append(getEncodedXML(event.getTitle(), "title"));
          xmlBuilder.append(getEncodedXML(event.getOrganizer(), "organizer"));
          xmlBuilder.append("</event>");
          return xmlBuilder.toString();
     /End of Function to buildXML/
     /*Begin of Function to get EncodedXML
return: String
input: String,String
     public String getEncodedXML(String xmlString, String tag) {
          StringBuffer begin = new StringBuffer("");
          if ((tag != null) || (!tag.equalsIgnoreCase("null"))) {
               begin.append("<").append(tag).append(">");
               begin.append("<![CDATA[");
               begin.append(xmlString).append("]]>").append("</").append(
                    tag).append(
                    ">");
          return begin.toString();
     /End of Function to get EncodedXML/
     /*Begin of Function to get formated date
return: String
input: Date
     private final String formatDate(Date inputDateStr) {
          String date;
          try {
               SimpleDateFormat simpleDateFormat =
                    new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
               date = simpleDateFormat.format(inputDateStr);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               return "";
          return date;
     /End of Function to get formated date/
Code for XMLParser:-
Created on Apr 12, 2006
Author-Anish
This is a parser class
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import com.idb.events.Event;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDMessageManager;
public class XMLParser {
Enables namespace functionality in parser
     private final boolean isNameSpaceAware = true;
Enables validation in parser
     private final boolean isValidating = true;
The SAX parser used to parse the xml
     private SAXParser parser;
The XML reader used by the SAX parser
     private XMLReader reader;
This method creates the parser to parse the user details xml.
     private void createParser()
          throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
          // Create a JAXP SAXParserFactory and configure it
          SAXParserFactory saxFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
          saxFactory.setNamespaceAware(isNameSpaceAware);
          saxFactory.setValidating(isValidating);
          // Create a JAXP SAXParser
          parser = saxFactory.newSAXParser();
          // Get the encapsulated SAX XMLReader
          reader = parser.getXMLReader();
          // Set the ErrorHandler
This method is used to collect the user details.
     public Event getEvent(
          String newsXML,
          XMLHandler xmlHandler,
          IWDMessageManager mgr)
          throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException, IOException {
          //create the parser, if not already done
          if (parser == null) {
               this.createParser();
          //set the parser handler to extract the
          reader.setErrorHandler(xmlHandler);
          reader.setContentHandler(xmlHandler);
          InputSource source =
               new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(newsXML.getBytes()));
          reader.parse(source);
          //return the results of the parse
          return xmlHandler.getEvent(mgr);
Code for XMLHandler:-
Created on Apr 12, 2006
Author-Anish
This is a parser class
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import com.idb.events.Event;
Created on Apr 12, 2006
Author-Anish
*This handler class is created to have constant value for variables and function for get events,
    character values for bean variable,
    parsing thr date ......etc
package com.idb.events.util;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import java.util.*;
import com.idb.events.Event;
import com.sap.tc.webdynpro.progmodel.api.IWDMessageManager;
public class XMLHandler extends DefaultHandler {
     private static final String TITLE = "title";
     private static final String ORGANIZER = "organizer";
     IWDMessageManager manager;
     private Event events;
     private String tagName;
     public void setManager(IWDMessageManager mgr) {
          manager = mgr;
This function is created to get events
     public Event getEvent(IWDMessageManager mgr) {
          manager = mgr;
          return this.events;
This function is created to get character for setting values through event's bean setter method
     public void characters(char[] charArray, int startVal, int length)
          throws SAXException {
          String tagValue = new String(charArray, startVal, length);
          if (TITLE.equals(this.tagName)) {
               this.events.setTitle(tagValue);
          if (ORGANIZER.equals(this.tagName)) {
               String orgName = tagValue;
               try {
                    orgName = getOrgName(orgName);
               } catch (Exception ex) {
               this.events.setOrganizer(orgName);
This function is created to parse boolean.
     private final boolean parseBoolean(String inputBooleanStr) {
          boolean b;
          if (inputBooleanStr.equals("true")) {
               b = true;
          } else {
               b = false;
          return b;
This function is used to call the super constructor.
     public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
          throws SAXException {
          super.endElement(uri, localName, qName);
     /* (non-Javadoc)
@see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler#fatalError(org.xml.sax.SAXParseException)
This function is used to call the super constructor.
     public void fatalError(SAXParseException e) throws SAXException {
          super.fatalError(e);
This function is created to set the elements base on the tag name.
     public void startElement(
          String uri,
          String localName,
          String qName,
          Attributes attributes)
          throws SAXException {
          this.tagName = localName;
          if (ROOT.equals(tagName)) {
               this.events = new Event();
     public static void main(String a[]) {
          String cntry = "Nigeria";
          XMLHandler xml = new XMLHandler();
          ArrayList engList = new ArrayList();
          engList = xml.getCountries();
          ArrayList arList = xml.getArabicCountries();
          int engIndex = engList.indexOf(cntry);
          System.out.println("engIndex :: " + engIndex);
          String arCntryName = (String) arList.get(engIndex);
          System.out.println(
               ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>" + xml.getArabicCountryName(cntry));
Hope that may help you.
If need any help , you are most welcome.
Regards,
Deepak

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Link to Captivate project I created for you all to explore "undefined" error message": http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug/
Link to this Captivate 8 Project file: http://iti.cscc.edu/drag_and_drop_bug.cptx
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I did go ahead and submit this to Adobe as a possible bug today.
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~ Paul

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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Dennis Knutson wrote:
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>Note 1494285 seems to be in reference to BPC for Microsoft and we are using NetWeaver.
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iv)           Adobe Presenter 8
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