I haven't tried this but you should be able to make the 'name' private modifier. But leave the getter and setter methods. I thought the 'ClassRep' has the 'addFields' which will do a 'getDeclaredFields' (i.e. private stuff too) and it will test these to see if 'normal' bean getter and setter fields are present for this field. If so, then the fields vector is updated and the WSDL <sequence> for this <complexType> 'should' be updated. I have not tested this but only reviewed the code but that is the way it appears to behave.
I just took the time to try this and it works. chris -----Original Message----- From: Benazech Cédric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to choose bean attributes to publish in WSDL Hello. Is there a simple way to choose the javabeans' attributes to display in the WSDL. for example, I have this bean : public class Personn { private String name, firstname, surname; public String getName() { return name; } public String getFirstname() { return firstname; } public String getSurname() { return surname; } public void setName(String s) { name = s; } public void setFirstname(String s) { firstname = s; } public void setSurname(String s) { surname = s; } } By default, the generated XML Schema generated in the wsdl is : <complexType name="SMSText"> <sequence> <element name="name" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" /> <element name="firstname" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" /> <element name="surname" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" /> </sequence> </complexType> How can I hide the surname, for example, in order to generate this Schema : <complexType name="SMSText"> <sequence> <element name="name" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" /> <element name="firstname" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" /> </sequence> </complexType> I searched a lot (in the Axis source) and tried several ways : - using a BeanInfo : that didn't work. The BeanSerializer doesn't use the java.bean.Introspector - writing a getAttribute() method in the bean : didn't work. This feature doesn't seems to be used anymore : the method is called in the BeanSerializer.getBeanAttributes(Class, TypeDesc) but getBeanAttributes is not used in the BeanSerializer.writeSchema(Types) which is responsible for the WSDL generation - writing a getTypeDesc() methode in the bean : didn't work. I thaught the TypeDesc was used to describe a class, but It's the ClassRep object that is used to Introspect the Bean classes. I haven't understood what the TypeDesc is used for ... :( The only way I see is to write an other BeanSerializer (hard to do ...) or to extend the addFields(Class) method of ClassRep, but I don't know how to make the AxisServlet use my version of ClassRep for the dynamic generation of the wsdl (with the ?wsdl in the URL). Any help will be greatly appreciated. - Cédric PS : excuse my poor english : I'm French and not used to write English ... ;(
