We have an axis service that returns arrays of beans that include null array
element values and it does work.
FYI: This may not be related to your problem but our axis client is setting
the org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.PROP_DOMULTIREFS property to false like so:
stub._setProperty( org.apache.axis.AxisEngine.PROP_DOMULTIREFS,
Boolean.FALSE );
but the server does not set any such property in the .wsdd
We did this in the client to solve the following exception on the server:
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.xml.sax.helpers.AttributesImpl.getValue(AttributesImpl.java:286)
at org.apache.axis.Constants.getValue(Constants.java:156)
at
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.getTypeFromAttributes(De
serializationContextImpl.java:341)
at
org.apache.axis.message.RPCHandler.onStartChild(RPCHandler.java:157)
at
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(Deserializa
tionContextImpl.java:859)
at
org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.java:199)
at
org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:
637)
at
org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:200)
at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:258)
at
org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider.java:1
61)
at
org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:285)
... 37 more
and the corresponding one on the client:
- Mapping Exception to AxisFault
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:13
5)
at
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(Deserializati
onContextImpl.java:906)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.jav
a:559)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.handleEndElement(XMLNamespaceBinde
r.java:853)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.endElement(XMLNamespaceBinder.java
:643)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(XMLDTDValidator.
java:2978)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:9
18)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.handleEndElement(XMLDo
cumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1145)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocu
mentFragmentScannerImpl.java:988)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc
her.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1446)
at
org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocume
ntFragmentScannerImpl.java:333)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserCo
nfiguration.java:529)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserCo
nfiguration.java:585)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:147)
at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:114
8)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
at
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationCon
textImpl.java:216)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:455)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:321)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:1962)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1932)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1705)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1633)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1180)
Again, this may not be related to your question and this problem may be
fixed in beta3 (TBD.)
Good luck!
alan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: returning arrays of beans
>
>
> Heitzso wrote:
>
> > just confirming that bean with attribute of array of beans
> > can be handled correctly by axis, though will be serialized/de.
> > via multiref unless that is toggled false. Some attributes
> > of my beans have been null and that's worked, but I've never
> > had null bean array elements.
>
> I use java2wsdl to create the appropriate files for my web
> services. For
> some reason I haven't been able to get it to return an array
> of beans, or even
> an array of ints, but I can convert everything into an XML
> string and it
> works.
> I have some attributes that I set to null, and that may
> have been part of
> the problem, so I will be testing it out today.
>
