Hi, I'm calling a .NET web service using Axis client code. I'm desperately trying to find out if it is possible to remove the xsi:type from the envelope. I've read so many messages on the Axis groups about this issue, and as other posters have done, I've tried unsuccessfully to disable the sending of this attribute in many ways, including (individually and using various combinations of) the following:
call.setOption(Call.SEND_TYPE_ATTR,Boolean.FALSE); call.setProperty(Call.SEND_TYPE_ATTR,Boolean.FALSE); call.setScopedProperty(Call.SEND_TYPE_ATTR,Boolean.FALSE); call.setOption(AxisEngine.PROP_SEND_XSI,Boolean.FALSE); call.setProperty(AxisEngine.PROP_SEND_XSI,Boolean.FALSE); call.setScopedProperty(AxisEngine.PROP_SEND_XSI,Boolean.FALSE); call.getMessageContext ().setProperty(AxisEngine.PROP_SEND_XSI,Boolean.FALSE); call.getService().getAxisEngine ().setOption(AxisEngine.PROP_SEND_XSI,Boolean.FALSE); None of these actually remove the xsi:type from all the fields. I've also read from one poster that this is a bug, and from another that only some types of parameters will allow this removal. Surely int and long parameters don't need it, or the successful .NET client (to the same web service), which doesn't set the xsi:type would fail. One thing is for sure, though: the only difference between what gets sent from the unsuccessful Axis client and what gets sent from the successful .NET client is the xsi:type attributes on the parameters. Those people who've posted about this in the past - how did you solve it? Anybody else have any ideas? I'll paste in what the Axis client is sending below. And below that I'll post in the returned error. Ian <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv ="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd ="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi ="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <soapenv:Body> <doBlah xmlns="http://tempuri.org";> <requestNumber xsi:type="xsd:long">1</requestNumber> <someId xsi:type="xsd:int">1</someId> <xmlData>[snip]</xmlData> </doBlah> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Array cannot be null. Parameter name: bytes at System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.GetString(Byte[] bytes) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:251) at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:168) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:1015) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:568) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.handleEndElement(XMLNamespaceBinder.java:853) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.endElement(XMLNamespaceBinder.java:643) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:3006) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:930) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.handleEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1145) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:988) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1446) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:333) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserConfiguration.java:525) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserConfiguration.java:581) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:147) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1157) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:242) at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538) at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:376) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2545) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2515) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2210) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2133) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1656) at MyInterfaceClient.doBlah(MyInterfaceClient.java:98)
