Hi Guys, I'm a newbie, and I'm using axis-1.4. I have a web service that I am connecting to, which I did not write, which was written using axis-1.4. I am having problems using the WSDL2Java generated files, as well as using the soap call api. Neither appear to work as expected.
I'm almost at my wits end, and feel like doing a manual call using HttpsURLConnection. But boy would it be nice to be able to use the WSDL2Java generated classes, or at the very least, use the axis-SOAP api to make the call. In both cases, I am getting proper XML responses. I can tell, because I step through the code, and the soap response has the same XML that I would get if I did the request manually. 1. WSDL2Java does not generate code that is able to access the soap service I am accessing; I get an error that says... org.xml.sax.SAXException: Invalid element in DataTypes.APASProxy._2007._04.ReceivedTranscript - ReceivedTranscript The code was generated from the wsdl from the service directly. i.e. http://localhost/axis/service/ServiceName?wsdl I have no idea where to start. Simple requests that take no parameters, and return strings, work just fine. But when it's a complex return value, such as an array, it doesn't appear to work, AT ALL. Here's an example of one that fails for me; which I do manually here to show that it works fine without the WSDL generated classes. openssl s_client -connect hostname:443 POST /axis/services/APASQueueService HTTP/1.0 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/* User-Agent: Axis/1.4 Host: apasproxy.athabascau.ca Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache SOAPAction: "http://APASProxy.ServiceContracts/2007/04/GetRegisteredEducationalInstitutions"; Content-Length: 351 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/200 1/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";><soapenv:Body><GetRegisteredEducationalInstitutions xmlns="http://APASProxy.ServiceContracts/2007/04"/></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";><soapenv:Body><GetRegisteredEducationalInstitutionsResponse xmlns="http://APASProxy.ServiceContracts/2007/04";><GetRegisteredEducationalInstitutionsResult><RegisteredEducationalInstitution xsi:type="ns1:RegisteredEducationalInstitution" xmlns:ns1="http://APASProxy.DataTypes/2007/04";><ns1:SourceId>48024000</ns1:SourceId> ......blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada. </GetRegisteredEducationalInstitutionsResult></GetRegisteredEducationalInstitutionsResponse></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>closed 2. I am unable to make an axis Call connection either; I keep getting an error that says.... org.xml.sax.SAXException: SimpleDeserializer encountered a child element, which is NOT expected, in something it was trying to deserialize. The above one, is the "simple" request I mentioned earlier. Just a string retrieval. Here's an example of the java code... Service soapService = new Service(); Call call = (Call) soapService.createCall(); call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL ("https://hostname/axis/services/APASQueueService";)); call.setOperationName( new QName("", "GetHostInstitution")); call.setReturnType(XMLType.XSD_STRING); // this is not working try { System.out.println(call.invoke( new Object[] { })); } catch (java.rmi.RemoteException re) { re.printStackTrace(); } Here's an example from doing it manually. If I step through the code, it is getting the same response, but is unable to handle it. Try to ignore any wrapping that occurs, as I'm sure my mail client will wrap some of it. openssl s_client -connect hostname:443 POST /axis/services/APASQueueService HTTP/1.0 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/* User-Agent: Axis/1.4 Host: hostname Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache SOAPAction: "http://APASProxy.ServiceContracts/2007/04/GetHostInstitution"; Content-Length: 333 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/200 1/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";><soapenv:Body><GetHostInstitution xmlns="http://APASProxy.ServiceContracts/2007/04"/></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope> HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 15:40:34 GMT Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8 Connection: close <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";><soapenv:Body><GetHostInstitutionResponse xmlns="http://APASProxy.ServiceContracts/2007/04";><ns1:GetHostInstitutionResult xmlns:ns1="http://APASProxy.DataTypes/2007/04";><ns1:SourceId>48002000</ns1:SourceId><ns1:EducationalInstitutionName>Athabasca University</ns1:EducationalInstitutionName></ns1:GetHostInstitutionResult></GetHostInstitutionResponse></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>closed Trenton D. 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