Glen Daniels wrote: >Hi Lene: > >Axis knows natively how to serialize Lists, so Vectors, ArrayLists, etc. will all >serialize to SOAP arrays right out of the box. In looking at the Collection class, I >see no reason we couldn't serialize an arbitrary Collection. I had been under the >impression that Collection was also the root of the Map hierarchy, but that doesn't >seem to be the case, and in fact Collections appear to be simply >linearly-traverseable sets of objects. > >Committers, any objection to making this change for beta-2? > >In terms of your immediate problem, I think it's because the "languageSpecificType" >attribute has changed to just "type" to be more compatible with the JAX-RPC RI. We >should have a clear error message which informs you of this, however. > >--Glen > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Lene Bredgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:14 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Collection serializer ?? >> >> >>Hi >> >>I have a method returning a Collection. >>My problem is how to specify the serialization. >> >>In axis alpha, I found a way: I registered a Collection serializer, >>which made a vector( new Vector(Collection collection)), and then >>serialized the vector. >>On the client side I could then cast the returnvalue to a Collection. >> >>I have problems moving this solution to Axis beta. >>Even though I can register my collection serializer via a >>typeMapping in >>wsdd, it never really seems to come in use. >> >>Anyone any idea what is wrong, or suggestions on other ways to solve a >>collection serialization problem?? >> >>from wsdd: >><service name="urn:CollectionTestService" provider="Handler"> >> <typeMapping qname="ns:Collection" >>xmlns:ns="http://skyva.com/xml-soap"; >> languageSpecificType="java:java.util.Collection" >> >>serializer="com.skyva.pi.soap.axis.CollectionSerializer"/> >> <parameter name="methodName" value="getArray getVector getList >>getVectorCollection getListCollection getHashSet"/> >> <parameter name="className" >>value="com.skyva.pi.soap.axis.test.CollectionTestService"/> >> <parameter name="handlerClass" >>value="com.skyva.pi.soap.axis.SkyvaRPCProvider"/> >> </service> >> >>Thanks >>Lene >> > Hi
does axis know how to serialize Enumerations, cause I'm having a problem with a method which returns a netscape.ldap.LDAPSearchResults which implements Enumeration and Serializable interfaces.
