Hi,
When using byte[] as a parameter in a JAXWS-Style Webservice - example
method-definition follows:
@WebMethod(action = "addDocument")
public void addDocument(
@WebParam(name="docId") String docId,
@WebParam(name="documentData") byte[] documentData) throws
DocumentServiceFault;
The array received by the client has the length 0.
I traced the problem back to
org.apache.axis2.datasource.jaxb.JAXBDSContext's unmarshalArray(final
XMLStreamReader reader, final Unmarshaller u, Class type)-Method, which
tries to convert every Array-Object to a String-Array using the jaxb
(version 2.1.7) unmarshaller.
This fails with byte-Arrays and returns a zero-byte String-Arrays, which
leads to a call in the service, that has a zero-length byte-array,
independent of what the client really sent.
I did a quick hack to make it work by changing the method to:
private static Object unmarshalArray(final XMLStreamReader reader, final
Unmarshaller u, final Class type) throws Exception {
try {
if (DEBUG_ENABLED) {
log.debug("Invoking unmarshalArray");
}
Object jaxb = AccessController.doPrivileged(new PrivilegedAction() {
public Object run() {
try {
if(type == byte[].class)
return u.unmarshal(reader, byte[].class);
return u.unmarshal(reader, String[].class);
} catch (OMException e) {
throw e;
} catch (Throwable t) {
throw new OMException(t);
}
}
});
Object typeObj = getTypeEnabledObject(jaxb);
// Now convert String Array in to the required Type Array.
if (typeObj instanceof String[]) {
String[] strArray = (String[]) typeObj;
Object obj = XSDListUtils.fromStringArray(strArray, type);
QName qName =
XMLRootElementUtil.getXmlRootElementQNameFromObject(jaxb);
jaxb = new JAXBElement(qName, type, obj);
} else {
QName qName =
XMLRootElementUtil.getXmlRootElementQNameFromObject(jaxb);
jaxb = new JAXBElement(qName, type, typeObj);
}
return jaxb;
} catch (OMException e) {
throw e;
} catch (Throwable t) {
throw new OMException(t);
}
}
I hope this issue gets fixed somehow in future versions (Tested on Axis2
1.5).
Greetings,
Florian
