Another thing about this that is important to know is that I ***DID NOT** use what everyone is saying to use as far as WS-I-compliant WSDL is concerned. I used rpc/encoded. The reason being is that when I used doc/literal and wrapped style, .NET blew-up. On the other-hand, if I stuck with the conventional rpc/encoded wsdl, .NET worked like a charm as a client to my web service.
Regards, Tami -----Original Message----- From: Tami Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Array of Objects in Axis and .NET interop Marcus, Thanks for the quick response. I also found that the code/beans that is/are generated (for my schema complexTypes that are being returned by some of my web service methods) when doing a WSDL2Java (without the -h parameter) have typeDesc info that is being passed in. That is what I was referring to in the copy/paste job below. So, I tried just putting null in there like I showed in the changed code below and it works! (So, we're probably going about accomplishing the same task just with different approaches.) Thanks again! Tami -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:45 PM To: Tami Wright Subject: RE: Question about your post Tami, No, actually the code I changed was the actual typedesc info generated by wsdl2java. It is either in the bean itself or if using the -h generate helper switch then it is in the _Helper class that was generated for the bean. /** * TestBeanChild_Helper.java * * This file was auto-generated from WSDL * by the Apache Axis 1.2beta3 Aug 31, 2004 (10:11:01 PDT) WSDL2Java emitter. */ package test.complex; public class TestBeanChild_Helper { // Type metadata private static org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc typeDesc = new org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc(TestBeanChild.class, true); static { typeDesc.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "TestBeanChild")); org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc(); elemField.setFieldName("name"); elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "name")); elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";, "string")); typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField); elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc(); elemField.setFieldName("phone"); elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "phone")); elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";, "string")); typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField); //Remove the following element description. elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc(); elemField.setFieldName("testBeans"); elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "testBeans")); elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("urn:TestTypedArraysWrappedLiteralService", "ArrayOf_tns3_TestBean")); typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField); //Remove the following element description. elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc(); elemField.setFieldName("beanData"); elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "beanData")); elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("urn:TestTypedArraysWrappedLiteralService", "ArrayOf_tns2_string")); typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField); elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc(); elemField.setFieldName("item"); elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "item")); elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://complex.test";, "TestBean")); typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField); } /** * Return type metadata object */ public static org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc getTypeDesc() { return typeDesc; } /** * Get Custom Serializer */ public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer getSerializer( java.lang.String mechType, java.lang.Class _javaType, javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) { return new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializer( _javaType, _xmlType, typeDesc); } /** * Get Custom Deserializer */ public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Deserializer getDeserializer( java.lang.String mechType, java.lang.Class _javaType, javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) { return new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer( _javaType, _xmlType, typeDesc); } } I have not done much more experimentation with this to verify everything works properly with .NET, but the xml appears correct. marcus -----Original Message----- From: Tami Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question about your post Hi marcus, A couple of more questions (I hope you don't mind)... Are you changing the following code: " /** * Get Custom Serializer */ public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer getSerializer( java.lang.String mechType, java.lang.Class _javaType, javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) { return new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializer( _javaType, _xmlType, typeDesc); } /** * Get Custom Deserializer */ public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Deserializer getDeserializer( java.lang.String mechType, java.lang.Class _javaType, javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) { return new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer( _javaType, _xmlType, typeDesc); } " To: " /** * Get Custom Serializer */ public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer getSerializer( java.lang.String mechType, java.lang.Class _javaType, javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) { return new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializer( _javaType, _xmlType, null); } /** * Get Custom Deserializer */ public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Deserializer getDeserializer( java.lang.String mechType, java.lang.Class _javaType, javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) { return new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer( _javaType, _xmlType, null); } " In other words, putting "null" instead of "typeDesc" in the Serializer/Deserializer of each bean that's returning an array? Thanks, Tami -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:02 AM To: Tami Wright Subject: RE: Question about your post Tami, That's right, it is quite unacceptable but does allow work to continue until the fix is in place. Even though the signature in Java returns the ArrayOf_* class, since the xml is correct, .NET will reflect the correct return type as the class array. NOTE: I have also found that the correct xml can be generated if the type desc info for the field is not included in the helper class. I am hoping this information will assist in debugging the problem. marcus -----Original Message----- From: Tami Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question about your post That's nuts! So, in the bean that has an array that is a property (say the array is "Campaign[] campaigns") instead of the signature being "Campaign[] getCampaigns()" it's "ArrayOf_Campaign getCampaigns()"? Did you create an interface or what? Thanks for your help! Tami -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:34 AM To: Tami Wright Subject: RE: Question about your post Tami, The change I made was in the bean that I was returning. My service method returns a bean with a property which is an array. So I changed the property to return the ArrayOf_ class instead of the array. If this doesn't help let me know. I am still working on some cleaner work arounds and/or fixes depending on what I find. marcus -----Original Message----- From: Tami Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about your post Hi Marcus, My name is Tami Wright. I'm trying to get .NET and Axis to play nice together and noticed you stated that you got the serializers to work correctly for returning a correctly serialized array to .NET. Where did you change it from returning a Bean[] to an ArrayOf_tns3? In the axis-generated marshalling code inside the bean that returns the array of objects or elsewhere? Thanks in advance! Tami
