Re: "private final" attribute in generated stub java client

[Dennis Sosnoski]

Just to avoid potential confusion, "Constructor" is not the proper term here. The service locator class has a pair of factory methods that return instances of the actual service interface. One of these uses the default URL hard-coded in the class definition, the other uses a passed-in URL. You want to use the one that takes a passed-in URL rather than the no-arguments method, Adrian.

- Dennis

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Hi!

I'm using Axis beta 1 (or is it beta 2?), and my "MyServiceLocator" has TWO constructors, one that uses the "private final" field, but also one that takes a parameter "java.net.URL portAddress", which solves the problem of changing URL to the SOAP web service.

Are you sure that there is no constructor that takes a parameter of type java.net.URL?
If so, does anyone know if this extra constructor has been removed (by error I guess) in the latest Axis release(s)?

Eirik Wahl

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:adrian.dimulescu@;free.fr]
Sent: 6. november 2002 11:14
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "private final" attribute in generated stub java client


Hello,

One little question concerning the Axis-generated Java stub client:

The MyServiceLocator class (which actually contains an attribute like:

private final java.lang.String kercash_address = "http://172.20.140.221/axis/services/myservice";;

declares it as "private final".

Why is that a problem? Because one normally generates a set of client stubs and packages them somehow, puts them in production etc. What if the
address of the wsdl changes - which, by the way, kind of happens all the time as
you deploy it on different test machines with different locations of the WSDL only to get it in production.

So, what does one do? He does not regenerate everytime the classes (on prod
machines often there aren't even compilers). So he seeks to parameterize the
location of the wsdl, like, say:

locator = new MyServiceLocator("http://172.20.140.221/axis/services/myservice";)

But, wait! There is no such constructor, as the address of the WSDL is
hardwired. No problem, says the Java programmer, I will get it my way:

class ParameterizableMyServiceLocator extends MyServiceLocator {
ParameterizableMyServiceLocator (String wsdlLocation) {
myservice_address = wsdlLocation;
}
}

No go: myservice_address is "final private", not simply "protected"; this makes sense as long as the idea is hardwiring it. But the question is: would
it be possible to only "protect" it so that runtime parameterization can be done?

Thank you,
Adrian Petru Dimulescu