Service service = new Service();
Call call = (Call)service.createCall();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(
new URL(_htmlMenuServiceUrl));
QName qName = new QName(
"HtmlMenuService",
"fetchMenuData"
);
call.setOperationName(qName);
QName returnQName = new QName(
"com.fwdco.wsbeans",
"MenuDataBean"
);
call.registerTypeMapping(
MenuDataBean.class,
returnQName,
new BeanSerializerFactory(
MenuDataBean.class,
returnQName
),
new BeanDeserializerFactory(
MenuDataBean.class,
returnQName
)
);
call.setReturnType(
returnQName,
MenuDataBean.class
);
_menuDataBean =
(MenuDataBean)call.invoke(
new Object[]{
_menuTemplate,
_employerId,
_employeeId,
_userType
}
);
You also need to make sure that the client has access to the class files of
any Java specific types that you want to send over the wire.
I haven't tried sending arrays of beans yet. You may want to create one
bean with an array property and specifically map that class.
Hope it helps
-Ben Souther
On Sunday 29 December 2002 12:49 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been struggling with this for quite some time now, and it's time
> > to post as I am about to go insane. Note that I posted this problem to
> > the comp.lang.programmer group before receiving my subscription
> > activation for this list. Here goes:
> >
> > I have a class that returns an array of javabeans (ArticleBean). I want
> > to expose this class as a web service using Axis. So far, I've been
> > successful publishing/consuming simple web services, but I've had no
> > success with anything that returns beans...even the provided sample won't
> > work for me.
> >
> > Here's the relevant axis code from the web service client:
> > String endpoint =
> >
> > "http://localhost:8080/ArticleSearchService/services/ArticleSearchImpl";;
> > Service service = new Service();
> > Call call=null;
> >
> > call = (Call) service.createCall();
> > call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
> > QName qn = new QName( "urn:ArticleBean", "ArticleBean" );
> > call.registerTypeMapping(ArticleBean.class, qn,
> > new
> > org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory(ArticleBean.class,
> > qn), new
> > org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory(ArticleBean.class,
> > qn));
> > call.setOperationName( new QName("ArticleSearchImpl", "searchByDoi")
> > ); call.addParameter("doi", XMLType.XSD_STRING, ParameterMode.IN);
> > call.setReturnType( XMLType.SOAP_ARRAY );
> > ab = (ArticleBean[]) call.invoke( new Object [] {doi});
> >
> > And here's the deployment descriptor:
> >
> > <deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/";
> > xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java";>
> > <service name="ArticleSearchImpl" provider="java:RPC">
> > <parameter name="className" value="ArticleSearchImpl"/>
> > <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/>
> > <beanMapping qName="myNS:ArticleBean"
> > xmlns:myNS="urn:ArticleBean" languageSpecificType="java:ArticleBean"/>
> > </service>
> > </deployment>
> >
> > If I view the wsdl at
> > http://localhost:8080/ArticleSearchService/services/ArticleSearchImpl?wsd
> >l, I get the following error: (snip) The value of the attribute
> > "xmlns:tns1" is invalid. Prefixed namespace bindings may not be empty
> >
> > If I invoke a the client class (snippet above), I get "no deserializer
> > defined for array type" in the error message.
> >
> > So.....I tried another approach:
> >
> > put my ArticleSearchImpl class into a package (ArticleSearch).
> > use java2wsdl on this class; then, use wsdl2java, putting the
> > auto-generated files into package ArticleSearch.ws. This worked well.
> > however, it also put a new version of my ArticleBean class into this
> > package as well, and the deploy.wsdd points to this bean. Then, I use
> > the auto-generated
> > ArticleSearchImplSoapBindingImpl to wrap my original class, something
> > like this:
> >
> > import ArticleSearch.ArticleSearchImpl;
> > public class ArticleSearchImplSoapBindingImpl implements
> > ArticleSearch.ws.ArticleSearchImpl
> > {
> > ArticleSearchImpl searcher = new ArticleSearchImpl(); //my original
> > class
> >
> > public ArticleSearch.ws.ArticleBean[] searchByAuthor(java.lang.String
> > author) throws java.rmi.RemoteException {
> > return searcher.searchByAuthor(author);
> > }
> > ....
> > }
> >
> > The problem is that my original class returns an array of
> > ArticleSearch.ArticleBean, not an array of ArticleSearch.ws.ArticleBean.
> > Sticking (ArticleSearch.ws.ArticleBean[]) in front of the return value
> > didn't help, either, as I suspected it wouldn't. So now I've progressed
> > somewhat from my original problem, but i'm still stuck. I cannot believe
> > that it's all that difficult to create this sucker, so I know I'm doing
> > stupid things wrong.
> >
> > Since there is no documentation on the axis site for returning an array
> > of beans, I'm appealing to you all for help.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Marc
