Sending Map to a server

[Shellman, Joel]

In my service, I have a method that accepts a Map as a parameter:

public MyObject serviceMethod(Map values) {
        // impl...
}

I used Axis to auto generate the WSDL for it and it did generate:

    <s:schema targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap";>
      <s:import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; />
      <s:complexType name="Map">
        <s:sequence>
          <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="item">
            <s:complexType>
              <s:all>
                <s:element name="key" type="s:anyType" />
                <s:element name="value" type="s:anyType" />
              </s:all>
            </s:complexType>
          </s:element>
        </s:sequence>
      </s:complexType>
      <s:element name="Map" nillable="true" type="s1:Map" />

For it (namespaces for tags are a little different, but shouldn't be an
issue).

I'm getting the error:

Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad types (class [Ljava.lang.Object; ->
int
erface java.util.Map)
        at
org.apache.axis.message.RPCHandler.onStartChild(RPCHandler.java:207)
        at
org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(Dese
rializationContextImpl.java:857)
        at
org.apache.axis.message.SAX2EventRecorder.replay(SAX2EventRecorder.ja
va:199)
        at
org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElemen
t.java:644)
        at
org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.deserialize(RPCElement.java:201)
        at org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement.getParams(RPCElement.java:259)
        at
org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(RPCProvider
.java:161)
        at
org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(JavaProvider.java:
289)

When I try to run this. The client is sending (using tcpmon):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns=""
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:s1="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap";
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/";
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/";
xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:s0="urn:mydomain"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/";
xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/";
xmlns:tns="http://guispectrum.spectrum.summitsite.com";
xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<mswsb:enter xmlns:mswsb="http://mydomain"; xmlns="">
<values xsi:type="soapenc:Array" soapenc:arrayType="s1:item[4]">
<item xsi:type="s1:item">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">ID</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">ZZ</value></item>
<item xsi:type="s1:item">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">TRAN_CODE</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">WHOO</value></item>
<item xsi:type="s1:item">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">PARAMETERS_1</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string"></value></item>
<item xsi:type="s1:item">
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">PARAMETERS_2</key>
<value
xsi:type="xsd:string"></value></item></values></mswsb:enter></SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Is what the client is sending wrong, and if so, what should it be sending?

I tried to add a typeMapping in server-config.wsdl:

      <typeMapping
        xmlns:ns="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap";
        qname="ns:Map"
        type="java:java.util.Map"
        serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.MapSerializerFactory"
        deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.MapDeserializerFactory"
        encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
      />

But that didn't help.

Thanks!

Joel Shellman