Hi Chris, this looks promising.
However, I'm having trouble using ANY type of home-grown serializer, and would like to use one which someone knows works (other than the apache ones which come with the distribution). Thanks, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Chris Means [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Serializing an array of beans Unless I misunderstood your problem. You just put the 'array' brackets next to the object class name, like this: String [] fieldNames ; ... if (fieldNames != null) { xjmr.marshall (inScopeEncStyle, String[].class, fieldNames, "fieldNames", sink, nsStack, ctx) ; sink.write (StringUtils.lineSeparator) ; } > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Serializing an array of beans > > > Hi, I'm going round in circles trying to serialize an array of beans. > > First I tried using the Apache Bean Serializer, specifying it in the > deployment descriptor; this worked for one bean, but not for an array. > > I then wrapped the array in another class, then tried to write my own > serializer for the wrapper class, and refer to this serializer in the > deployment descriptor. > > This produces an error on post whenever I change it to point from anything > but the apache serializers. > > I am inspecting the XML returned from the soap servlet, the > output is shown > below. > > On the server end, is using the deployment descriptor (e.g. xml2java... > attribute) sufficent to successfully invoke my serializer when returning a > reply? > > From the client end I am using perl SOAP::Lite to invoke the function. On > the server end I am using the StatelessSessionBean provider to invoke a > method whose return type is the object array. > > Has anyone managed to write and make work an object array serializer on > Apache SOAP 2.2. If so, do you have any code/class/deployment > descriptors I > could look at? > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > 12:00:18:362|15|S|010: <SOAP-ENV:Body> > 12:00:18:362|15|S|011: <SOAP-ENV:Fault> > 12:00:18:362|15|S|012: <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server.Exception:</faultcode> > 12:00:18:362|15|S|013: > <faultstring>org/apache/soap/util/xml/Serializer</faultstring> > 12:00:18:362|15|S|014: <faultactor>/soap/servlet/rpcrouter</faultactor> > 12:00:18:362|15|S|015: </SOAP-ENV:Fault> > 12:00:18:362|15|S|016: > 12:00:18:362|15|S|017: </SOAP-ENV:Body> > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Andrew Simpson, SpeechWorks International, Inc. > 695 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, U.S.A. > Voice: +1 617 428 4444, Fax: +1 617 757 2211 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.speechworks.com > >