Eric,
Please enter this as a bug report at http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla.
Thanks,
dims
--- "Norman, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on an project where we want to expose our generic business logic
> classes as webservices. However, each of the methods in these classes
> expect the first parameter to be a server side (application context) object
> that should not be supplied by the client. A servlet filter creates the
> appContext object and makes it available for the server side classes to use
> (including our custom Axis Provider). In our custom Axis provider, we are
> overriding the invokeMethod(..) method to inject the appContext object into
> the argument array before invoking the method. That seems to work ok.
> However, the generated WSDL still has the offending (supplied on the server
> side) parameter in it which we don't want the client applications to have to
> worry about.
>
> Our initial thoughts on how to get rid of the parameter from the WSDL is to
> override the initServiceDesc(..) method in our custom Provider and remove
> the offending ParameterDesc from the OperationDesc object. Unfortunately,
> there doesn't seem to be any method available to remove a parameter from an
> OperationDesc. What we really want to do is to supply our own list of
> ParameterDesc objects (with the offending one removed).
>
> There was a partially implemented setParameters(..) call already in the
> OperationDesc class. To make our solution work, we fixed/completed the
> implementation of the setParameters(..) method and made it public. We are
> now able to remove the parameter from the WSDL (by overriding
> initServiceDesc(..) in our provider) and it seems to work.
>
> If there are no objections, I'd like to have someone add this patch to the
> main source tree. Below is the source for the method we had to modify.
>
> -----------------------
> In OperationDesc.java:
> -----------------------
>
> /**
> * Set the parameters wholesale.
> *
> * @param newParameters an ArrayList of ParameterDescs
> */
> public void setParameters(ArrayList newParameters) {
> parameters = new ArrayList(); //Keep numInParams correct.
> numInParams = 0;
>
> for( java.util.ListIterator li= newParameters.listIterator();
> li.hasNext(); ){
> addParameter((ParameterDesc) li.next());
> }
> }
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>
> Eric Norman | Software Engineer
>
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Davanum Srinivas - http://xml.apache.org/~dims/
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