Hi, We have been successfully using apache soap over the past one year for transferring java objects between web applications. We're using soap 2.2 with websphere 3.5.4 servlet/ejb environment.
We have a byte[] which is encoded to String using Base64 and the String is placed as a child element in a Parent Element(which contains other childeren). We notice that when the Element reaches the Provider Class the encoded string(one of the child elements) is getting truncated(the original encoded string is about 100k and the new string is about 5k). Are there any limits on the size of byte[] that can be encoded and decoded by Base64? Or are there any limits on size of "Element" parameters to a soap call? Here is the client code: //"itemElement" is the whole xml which contains an element "binaryData" which holds the encoded string public static Document save(int userID, Element itemElement) throws Exception { // Set the SOAP RPC URL URL rpcURL = null; try{ rpcURL = new URL ("http://localhost/soap/servlet/rpcrouter"); }catch(MalformedURLException ex){ throw new Exception("ItemManagerSOAPProxy::save - " + ex.getMessage()); } // Build the SOAP call Call call = new Call(); call.setTargetObjectURI("urn:ItemManagerPersistence"); call.setMethodName("saveItem"); call.setEncodingStyleURI(Constants.NS_URI_LITERAL_XML); // Set the method parameters Vector params = new Vector(); params.addElement(new Parameter("userID", int.class, new Integer(userID), Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC)); params.addElement(new Parameter("itemElement", Element.class, itemElement, Constants.NS_URI_LITERAL_XML)); call.setParams(params); // Invoke the call Response response = null; try{ response = call.invoke(rpcURL, ""); }catch(SOAPException ex){ throw new Exception("ItemManagerSOAPProxy::save - Caught SOAPException (" + ex.getFaultCode() + "): " + ex.getMessage()); } // Check the response Document itemXMLDocument = null; if(!response.generatedFault()){ Parameter returnValue = response.getReturnValue(); Object value = returnValue.getValue(); if(value != null) { // Cast value to an Element Element element = (Element)value; try{ DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder (); itemXMLDocument = db.newDocument(); Node importedNode = itemXMLDocument.importNode(element, true); itemXMLDocument.appendChild(importedNode); } catch(Exception ex){ throw new Exception ("ItemManagerSOAPProxy::save - " + ex.getMessage()); } } }else{ Fault fault = response.getFault(); throw new Exception("ItemManagerSOAPProxy::save - Fault Code = " + fault.getFaultCode() + " and Fault String = " + fault.getFaultString()); } return itemXMLDocument; } Here is the deployment descriptor: 'urn:ItemManagerPersistence' ID urn:ItemManagerPersistence Scope Application Provider Type java Provider Class com.intellequip.itemmanager.soap.ItemManagerSOAPProcessor Use Static Class false Methods saveItem, saveItemTemp, getItemByID, getItemTempByID, deleteItemTemp Any ideas about what is happening? Thanks in advance, Vishnu. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-unsubscribe@;xml.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:soap-user-help@;xml.apache.org>