Hi there,
first: I have the same problem. I'd need Axis to use Castor serializer with mapping file. But I can tell you, with the given Castor-Serializer it's not possible, as I made my may through the source of it. But it would be easyly extendable. Currently I'm extending it, giving the mapping file within the wsdd of the type mapping. This should work.
Now my question: The DEserializer interface is completly different. Instead of having one easy method serialize(...) that is doing all (and where just the castor marshaller is called), there are a lot of methods that seem to be called element by element. The org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.castor.Deserializer does not seem to do much different then the normal Axis Deserializer and I didn't find any place where to provide the castor mapping. And another drawback: I didn't find an easy way to provide the mapping-file parameter. The Serializer directly get's the parameters from the wsdd file, but I couldn't find something like that in the deserializer interface.
Did anyone work already with this things, or was overriding a deserializer? Any ideas?
Cheers, Frank
-----Original Message----- From: David Easley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1. mai 2005 19:00 To: axis-user@ws.apache.org Subject: Axis and Castor - newbie question
I've been experimenting using Axis and Castor along the lines described in the IBM article: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-castor/ Everything's working fine, but I have a few questions:
1. I want to test that the WS messages are being validated against my schema (after all, this is one of the main reasons I'm using Castor rather than plain old WSDL2Java). My test set-up involves using the Castor generated code on the client and server side, so it's impossible to generate invalid XML! What's the simplest way to test this?
2. On the server side, I already have a set of DTOs that I must use internal to the app. So I'm currently having to translate between the Castor generated objects and my own DTOs, which is a pain. Ideally, I'd like Castor to unmarshall/marshall directly to/from my DTOs. I've read the provided Castor XML Mapping documentation but I can't see how to integrate my Castor XML mapping file into my Axis+Castor solution. Can this be done?
3. If the answer to 2. is yes, can the incoming WS request messages and the outgoing WS response messages still be validated against my schema?
If the answer to 2 & 3 is yes, yippeeee!
Thanks for any help, David
