Steve, thanks for all your help. Your solution does look good. The problem in my case is that I am only writing the client. Someone else is writing the server side stuff. We used the RPC method when we first started (before I hot to map the deserializers) and I believe that wasn't an option for some reason. I will ask the other team again but I believe they will say no to your solution. Is there any drawbacks to adding the [SoapRpcService()] and [SoapRpcMethod()] to our server WebServices? Thanks. Peter Roth Telemetry Technologies Inc. p: 404.231.0021 ext. 1290 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Steeve Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: setting response deserializers dynamically not based on element n ames (Java client to MS .NET server) Hi Pete! I think you'll be happy with this one. Add the [SoapRpcService()] before your class and [SoapRpcMethod()] before your method and now they should add the datatype in the soap response. That's what I did and it's working great. The code looks like this... namespace DotNetService { [SoapRpcService()] [WebService(Namespace="urn:DUJS/", Description="Services SOAP offert par le .NET.")] public class DUNETService : System.Web.Services.WebService { [WebMethod(Description="Calcul le plus petit denominateur pour le nombre pass� en param�tre.")] [SoapRpcMethod()] public int PPD(int number) { int return_ppd = 2; return return_ppd; } } Good luck! Tell me if it's not working. Steeve... Pete Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 01/08/2001 10:10:42 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Soap-dev List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Soap-user list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: (bcc: Steeve Gilbert/G_STGEORGES/CANAM_MANAC) Subject: setting response deserializers dynamically not based on element n ames (Java client to MS .NET server) I have a response envelope that will look like the XML sample below. What I need to do is read in all that data. I now, with the help of users of this group, am able to build the response as an XML document and can parse it that way. The problem is that since I am using a .NET server that doesn't return the xsi:type attribute on each data element, I need to manually set up deserializers for each element returned by the server. When I use this method in my SOAP wrapper class: public void setDeserializer(org.apache.soap.util.xml.Deserializer[] des, String[] rsponseItemNamespaces, String[]responseItemNames) { for (int i=0; i<des.length;i++) { if(des[i] == null) return; _smr.mapTypes(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, new QName(responseItemNamespaces[i], responseItemNames[i]), null, null, des[i]); } _call.setSOAPMappingRegistry(_smr); } To map the deserializers to the response elements. Now this works for one element returned, but if I try to use it for the method which returns the below XML (passing all the deserializers, element namespaces, and element names of course) It tells me that "device_getCurrentMessageResult" there is no deserialzier to deserialize a "namespacehere:device_getCurrentMessageResult". What's up with that? Also, Since I am getting the response as XML and parsing it myself, I would just like to specify to use the StringDeserializer for all the data regardless of how many elements are returned in the SOAP envelope. That way if the names or number of elements change, in the method response, I won't have to change my client code, if I code it carefully. Does anyone know how I can just use StringDeserializer for the entire response so I don't have to know the names of all the elements returned in the SOAP envelope? Remember, I am using a .NET server that doesn't add the xsi:type attribute. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ******************* Sample XML response **************************************************************************** * <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> <soap:Body> <device_getCurrentMessageResponse xmlns="http://telemetrytech.net/VnocngWebService";> <device_getCurrentMessageResult> <vnVNOC ThisTransactionTime="string"> <VnocAddress>string</VnocAddress> <UserAddress>string</UserAddress> <Disclaimer>string</Disclaimer> <Copyright>string</Copyright> </vnVNOC> <vnDevice AccountID="string" DeviceIDInternal="int" AdminLevelAccess="boolean" AccountIDInternal="int"> <GroupName>string</GroupName> <DeviceName>string</DeviceName> </vnDevice> <vnDeviceInboundMsg MessageID="string"> <MessageEncoding>string</MessageEncoding> <MessageTime>string</MessageTime> <MessageTimeUTC>string</MessageTimeUTC> <MessageData>string</MessageData> <MessageDataPreParsed>string</MessageDataPreParsed> <MessageDataLenIn>string</MessageDataLenIn> </vnDeviceInboundMsg> </device_getCurrentMessageResult> </device_getCurrentMessageResponse> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> **************************************************************************** * Peter Roth Telemetry Technologies Inc. p: 404.231.0021 ext. 1290 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
