Has this question been answered? To me it looks like a fairly significant Axis bug, as you really shouldn't have to do anything special for ArrayTypes (I know that it works when passing back just an Array of Bean Objects, but maybe it is broken for Arrays that are members of other JavaBeans)?
--- Jess On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 17:21, David Gilbert wrote: > I have seen postings about deserializing arrays from last > January, but didn't find an answer to my problem. I am > trying to pass an object from my service back to the client > and am getting a "no deserializer defined for array type > {regisproject.util}Product" error. The object being passed > back is a bean (catalog) that contains an array of bean > objects (products). Using TCPMon I see that the message > sent to the client has the right data - > > <soapenv:Body> > <ns1:getCatalogResponse > soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" > xmlns:ns1="ProductDbHelper"> > <getCatalogReturn href="#id0"/> > </ns1:getCatalogResponse> > <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" > soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" > xsi:type="ns2:Catalog" > xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" > xmlns:ns2="regisproject.util"> > <products xsi:type="soapenc:Array" > soapenc:arrayType="ns2:Product[5]"> > <item href="#id1"/> > <item href="#id2"/> > <item href="#id3"/> > <item href="#id4"/> > <item href="#id5"/> > </products> > </multiRef> > <multiRef id="id4" soapenc:root="0" > soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" > xsi:type="ns3:Product" xmlns:ns3="regisproject.util" > xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> > <description xsi:type="xsd:string" xsi:nil="true"/> > <id xsi:type="xsd:string">4 </id> > <inventory xsi:type="xsd:double">55.0</inventory> > <name xsi:type="xsd:string">Test Product 456</name> > <nextShipDate > xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2003-01-01T07:00:00.000Z</nextShipDate> > <nextShipQty xsi:type="xsd:double">100.0</nextShipQty> > <price xsi:type="xsd:double">1234.56</price> > <status xsi:type="xsd:string">not active</status> > <vendorId xsi:type="xsd:string">3 </vendorId> > <vendorName > xsi:type="xsd:string">Parts-R-Us</vendorName> > </multiRef> > ... > > In my deploy.wsdd I have bean mappings for Product and > Catalog - > > <deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" > xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java"> > <service name="ProductDbHelper" provider="java:RPC"> > <parameter name="className" > value="regisproject.database.ProductDbHelper"/> > <parameter name="allowedMethods" > value="test,getProduct,getCatalog"/> > <beanMapping qname="myNS:Product" > xmlns:myNS="regisproject.util" > languageSpecificType="java:regisproject.util.Product"/> > <beanMapping qname="myNS:Catalog" > xmlns:myNS="regisproject.util" > languageSpecificType="java:regisproject.util.Catalog"/> > </service> > </deployment> > > Do I need to add something for the array to the .wsdd? Any > ideas as to what else is needed? > > Note: I have another service that returns a single product > and it deserializes without any problem. > > Thanks for any help you can provide.