Deserialization

[Michael Schuerig]

I'm obviously trying to do something that's beyond my current 
understanding of the technologies involved. It's not really fun to get 
stuck all the time, but at least I'm only wasting my own time. 

I have two applications, server and client, that ought to communicate by 
way of a web service. The server does little more than a database 
lookup and I already have a Serializer that can mangle the retrieved 
ResultSet so that I get a SOAP response like this

<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>
    <getLookupResponse
     soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>
      <getLookupReturn href="#id0" />
    </getLookupResponse>

    <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0"
     soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
     xsi:type="ns1:myreturnvalue"
     xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
     xmlns:ns1="http://example.com/myservice";>
      <info>abcde</info>
      <list1>
        <elem1>
          <elem11>abc</elem11>
          <elem12>def</elem12>
          <list2>
            <elem2>
              <elem21>pqr</elem3>
              <elem22>xyz</elem4>
            </elem2>
            <elem2>
              <elem21>pqr</elem3>
              <elem22>xyz</elem4>
            </elem2>
            <elem2>
             ...

          </list2>
        </elem1>
        <elem1>
          ...

      </list1>
    </multiRef>

  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

The Serializer does generate WSDL/types (writeSchema), but I still don't 
have that right. What I'm trying to achieve is to have wsdl2java 
generate client-side classes that can deserialize the returned XML 
*without* the help of a custom deserializer. Unfortunately, my early 
ignorant optimism has disappeared and I'm doubtful if that is possible 
at all.

Michael

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