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The soap spec says that the element names used to
identify each array item are irrelevant, so the change you are after is purely
cosmetic. Count yourself lucky that you don't have real
interoperability issues to worry about!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:28
AM
Subject: Array Serialization
Question...
We are
implementing some of our newer services using AXIS 1.0 but are trying to keep
some similarity to existing services we have. One area I have run into
is array serialization. The object that is being serialized in the array
is declared as <item> In our older calls the array element matches it's
type or name. Below is the AXIS generated result:
<ns1:GetPkgFilesResponse
soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:ns1="urn:schemas-wamnet-com:InfoCenter">
<FileList xsi:type="soapenc:Array" soapenc:arrayType="ns1:FileInfo[2]"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<item>
<UserFileName
xsi:type="xsd:string">170101-174.jtk</UserFileName>
<Size xsi:type="xsd:long">5692</Size>
</item>
<item>
<UserFileName
xsi:type="xsd:string">xml10.pdf</UserFileName>
<Size xsi:type="xsd:long">176689</Size>
</item>
</FileList>
</ns1:GetPkgFilesResponse>
For example
<item> would be replaced with <FileInfo>. I know that with
the soapenc tells the type of the item in the array, but we want consistency
with he older APIs we have. I have been able to change the
ArraySerializer to make it work the way I want with a simple 1 line
change. Below is the result after I changed the
Serialize:
<ns1:GetPkgFilesResponse
soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:ns1="urn:schemas-wamnet-com:InfoCenter">
<FileList xsi:type="soapenc:Array" soapenc:arrayType="ns1:FileInfo[2]"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<FileInfo>
<UserFileName
xsi:type="xsd:string">170101-174.jtk</UserFileName>
<Size xsi:type="xsd:long">5692</Size>
</FileInfo>
<FileInfo>
<UserFileName
xsi:type="xsd:string">xml10.pdf</UserFileName>
<Size xsi:type="xsd:long">176689</Size>
</FileInfo>
</FileList>
</ns1:GetPkgFilesResponse>
Is there another
way to do this or is this something that should be included as an option in
axis?
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Bill Grubbs
Consulting
Software Engineer
Wam!Net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(248) 375-5896
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