Well -- actually, you shouldn't be able to send an array of String
unless you had previously defined a type which is an array of string.
You see -- that what's really going wrong in Tim's application.
Consider this point: The "value" element has not been defined to allow
multiple occurrences. To make that work, then you would need to define
the "value" element like this:
<xsd:element name="value" type="xsd:anyType" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
But the way it's defined, an <options> element contains one <name>
element and one <value> element.
You see, this is the really challenging thing about using
<xsd:anyType>. Axis can't generate schema type definitions on the fly
(or if it did, it would have to send the schema with the request).
Assuming that you had previously defined an ArrayOfString type:
<xsd:complexType name="ArrayOfString"
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="item" type="xsd:string" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:complexType>
Then you should be able to send:
NamedValue object:
name: "dummy2"
value: String[]
And on the wire, it would look like this:
<options>
<name>dummy2</name>
<value xsi:type="ns1:ArrayOfString">
<item>blah</item>
<item>blah</item>
</value>
</options>
On 4/13/05, Tim K. (Gmane) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> I would be curious to see what the correct message should look like for a
> String[] as the value of the NamedvAlue, i.e. something like this:
>
> NamedValue object:
> name: "dummy-2"
> value: String[]
>
>
> <options>
> <name>dummy2</name>
> <value xsi:type=".....">
> <!-- How do you form the String[] in here? -->
> </value>
> </options>
>
> Are wrappers always needed in this case?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim
>
>
> Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> You're right. The array within the array should be mapped to this:
>
> <login xmlns="http://some/namespace";>
> <username>tim</username>
> <password>tim</password>
> <options>
> <name>dummy1</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:string">dummy_val1</value>
> </options>
> <options>
> <name>dummy2</name>
> <value xsi:type="ns1:NamedValue" xmlns:ns1="http://some/namespace";>
> <name>dummy2-1</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:string">val2-1</value>
> <name>dummy2-2</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:int">314</value>
> </value>
> </options>
> </login>
>
> I suggest you file a bug report, because Axis is not generating the
> right message structure per the WSDL.
>
> Anne
>
> On 4/13/05, Tim K. (Gmane) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Anne,
>
> I actually started from Java classes using Java2WSDL (I know this is not
> the best practice, but if there's something wrong with the WSDL I could try
> and fix it by hand).
>
> The ArrayOfNamedValue is defined like below, but it does not seem to come
> into play at all:
>
>
>
> - <complexType name="ArrayOfNamedValue">
>
>
> - <sequence>
>
>
> <element name="item" type="impl:NamedValue" minOccurs="0"
> maxOccurs="unbounded" />
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> I exposed this method:
> NamedValue[] login(String username, String password, NamedValue[] options)
> Which in the WSDL the request looks like this:
>
>
>
> - <element name="login">
>
>
> - <complexType>
>
>
> - <sequence>
>
>
> <element name="username" type="xsd:string" />
>
> <element name="password" type="xsd:string" />
>
> <element name="options" type="impl:NamedValue"
> maxOccurs="unbounded" />
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> </element>
> And the response like this:
>
>
>
> - <element name="loginResponse">
>
>
> - <complexType>
>
>
> - <sequence>
>
>
> <element name="loginReturn" type="impl:NamedValue"
> maxOccurs="unbounded" />
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
> </element>
> This seems OK so far, even though ArrayOfNamedValue is defined but it does
> not seem to be used.
>
> This is exactly what I want to pass back and forth:
>
> NamedValue object:
> name: "dummy-2"
> value: NamedValue[]
>
> But it doesn't look like that's what I get on the server side, it seems that
> I get:
>
> NamedValue object:
> name: "dummy-2"
> value: NamedValue <--- Note no array [] here
>
> And the value of the red NamedValue is the last value sent, in my example
> below it's 314
>
> How would Axis know that it needs to convert the request below into a
> NamedValue[] on the server side? What if the sequence of values would not be
> homogeneus, would it convert it into an Object[] instead (if it worked at
> all)?
>
> <login xmlns="http://some/namespace";>
> <username>tim</username>
> <password>tim</password>
> <options>
> <name>dummy1</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:string">dummy_val1</value>
> </options>
> <options>
> <name>dummy2</name>
> <value xsi:type="ns1:NamedValue" xmlns:ns1="http://some/namespace";>
> <name>dummy2-1</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:string">val2-1</value>
> </value>
> <value xsi:type="ns2:NamedValue" xmlns:ns2="http://some/namespace";>
> <name>dummy2-2</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:int">314</value>
> </value>
> </options>
> </login>
>
> The part in red above does not seem to map to this:
> NamedValue object:
> name: "dummy-2"
> value: NamedValue[]
>
> This confuses me greatly, I'm not sure whether what I'm trying to do is
> allowed/supported over wrapped doc/literal at all, if it is not I should
> then switch back to rpc/encoded or it's just a bug in Axis.
>
> Btw, .NET doesn't seem to be able to convert the red fragment above into a
> NamedValue[] so I suspect the message generated by Axis is not correct when
> it comes to arrays inside arrays.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tim
>
>
> Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> Tim,
>
> How did you define the array of NamedValue in the schema (where did
> the <options> tag come from)?
>
> It looks to me as if the message corresponds to the request. Because
> you're using <xsd:anytype>, the value element may contain an array of
> the NameValue. Hence the dummy-2 object is defined thus:
>
> NamedValue object:
> name: "dummy-2"
> value: NamedValue[]
>
> Is this not what you want?
>
> Anne
>
> On 4/13/05, Tim K. (Gmane) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> If someone could please help me with this issue I would appreciate it. I
> recently converted my web service from rpc/encoded to wrapped
> document/literal so that it works with .NET (before the change everything
> still worked even with .NET, except for problems with custom
> exceptions/faults).
>
> I have a data type defined as:
>
> <complexType name="NamedValue">
> <sequence>
> <element name="name" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" />
> <element name="value" nillable="true" type="xsd:anyType" />
> </sequence>
> </complexType>
>
> I need the value to be xsd:anyType so that I can send arrays of NamedValue
> with various types for value.
>
> On the server side I have a method defined as:
>
> NamedValue[] login(String username, String password, NamedValue[] options)
>
> If I create on the client side an options array that looks like this:
>
> NamedValue[] options = new NamedValue[]
> {
> new NamedValue("dummy1", "dummy_val1"),
>
> new NamedValue("dummy2",
> new NamedValue[]
> {
> new NamedValue("dummy2-1", "val2-1"),
> new NamedValue("dummy2-2", new Integer(314))
> })
> };
>
> Note the array inside the array above.
>
> A request to the server from an Axis client (latest CVS version of 1.2RC3)
> looks like this:
>
> <login xmlns="http://some/namespace";>
> <username>tim</username>
> <password>tim</password>
> <options>
> <name>dummy1</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:string">dummy_val1</value>
> </options>
> <options>
> <name>dummy2</name>
> <value xsi:type="ns1:NamedValue" xmlns:ns1="http://some/namespace";>
> <name>dummy2-1</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:string">val2-1</value>
> </value>
> <value xsi:type="ns2:NamedValue" xmlns:ns2="http://some/namespace";>
> <name>dummy2-2</name>
> <value xsi:type="xsd:int">314</value>
> </value>
> </options>
> </login>
>
> The encoding of the array inside the array does not seem right to me, the
> server ends up with a NamedValue value for "dummy2" instead of a
> NamedValue[].
>
> If the message is not correct, what should it look like? I assume it would
> need a wrapper, something like ArrayOfNamedValue ... but then this type
> would have to be defined in the schema (which in this case it is), but what
> about say ArrayOfLong, ArrayOfString, etc. which are not defined in the
> schema and could be sent at runtime because the value type is xsd:anyType?
>
> Is this supposed to work the way I want it with wrapped doc/literal? It
> worked fine before with rpc/encoded.
>
> If so, is this a bug in Axis? Any available patches for it?
>
> Thank you for any help you may provide.
> --
> Tim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
