Hi Keith, So did you get chance to publish articles on How to do REST with Axis2? I would really appreciate if you could please send me the link as I want to learn more on this.
Thanks -Abhishek. On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, keith chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Mathew, > > Expect some articles on this stuff soon (Within the coming week or so). I'm > in the process of publishing some articles on how to do REST with Axis2. > Thanks for your interest. > This also goes to show limitations in REST. > > Thanks, > Keith. > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Matthew Beldyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Keith, >> >> That does make sense, I couldn't determine how to even represent my >> complex type of complex types in a uri. This does explain the lack of >> documentation on how to do this. >> >> Thanks, >> -Matt >> >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:45 PM, keith chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Hi Matthew, >> > >> > You cannot support such request in a REST invocation. This is a >> limitation >> > of REST (Not just in Axis2 but REST as a whole). In order to do a truly >> > RESTfull service your input message should be a conplexType with a >> sequence. >> > And this sequence should be comprised of simple Types (No complexTypes. >> This >> > is the issue you are having). The only way you will be able to invoke >> this >> > without the use of soap is to do a post with the contentType of >> > allication/xml (i.e just the payload of the SOAP request). >> > >> > Hope I made my point clear to you. Any arbitrary service cannot support >> > REST. If you want to support both REST and SOAP your messages should be >> > designed in order to support that. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Keith. >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Matthew Beldyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Thanks Keith, >> >> >> >> Here's the schema for this service; I've also included the >> >> BoundingRadius from an "imported" namespace I'm using. >> >> The complex type I'm trying to pass via REST is UNAVCOMonumentSearch. >> >> >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> <complexType name="BoundingRadius"> >> >> <sequence> >> >> <element name="Lat" type="decimal" minOccurs="1" >> maxOccurs="1" >> >> /> >> >> <element name="Lon" type="decimal" minOccurs="1" >> maxOccurs="1" >> >> /> >> >> <element name="Radius" type="decimal" minOccurs="1" >> >> maxOccurs="1" /> <!-- in kilometers --> >> >> </sequence> >> >> </complexType> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> <schema elementFormDefault="unqualified" version="1.0" >> >> targetNamespace="http://api.unavco.org/services/monuments"; >> >> xmlns:ufac="http://api.unavco.org/services"; >> >> xmlns:mon="http://api.unavco.org/services/monuments"; >> >> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";> >> >> >> >> <import namespace="http://api.unavco.org/services"; >> >> schemaLocation="http://schemas.unavco.org/facility/GPSSearchTerms.xsd"; >> >> /> >> >> >> >> <element name="GPSSearch" type="mon:UNAVCOMonumentSearch" /> >> >> >> >> <complexType name="UNAVCOMonumentSearch"> >> >> <sequence> >> >> <!-- Global search parameters --> >> >> <element name="Scope" type="ufac:SearchScope" >> >> minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="SampleRate" >> >> type="mon:GPSSampleRate" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> >> >> <!-- Identity search params --> >> >> <element name="FourCharCode" >> >> type="ufac:FourCharCodePattern" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> >> >> <element name="Set" >> >> type="ufac:UNAVCOSetPattern" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/> >> >> <element name="Name" >> >> type="ufac:UNAVCONamePattern" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> >> >> <!-- Spatial search params --> >> >> <element name="BBox" type="ufac:BoundingBox" >> >> minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="BRadius" >> >> type="ufac:BoundingRadius" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <!-- Temporal search params --> >> >> <element name="StartTime" type="dateTime" >> >> minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="EndTime" type="dateTime" >> >> minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> >> >> <element name="ArchiveStartBefore" >> >> type="dateTime" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="ArchiveStartAfter" >> >> type="dateTime" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> >> >> <!-- Miscellaneous search params --> >> >> <element name="Status" >> >> type="mon:OperationalStatus" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> </sequence> >> >> </complexType> >> >> >> >> <element name="GPSSearchResponse" type="mon:MonumentResponse" /> >> >> >> >> <complexType name="MonumentResponse"> >> >> <sequence> >> >> <element name="MaxDate" type="dateTime" >> >> maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="MinDate" type="dateTime" >> >> maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="Monuments" >> >> type="mon:UNAVCOMonuments" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> </sequence> >> >> </complexType> >> >> <complexType name="UNAVCOMonuments"> >> >> <sequence> >> >> <element name="Monument" >> >> type="mon:UNAVCOMonument" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" /> >> >> </sequence> >> >> </complexType> >> >> <complexType name="UNAVCOMonument"> >> >> <sequence> >> >> <element name="MonumentID" type="string" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="MonumentName" type="string" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="MonumentType" type="string" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="FourCharCode" type="string" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="Grouping" type="string" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="Latitude" type="decimal" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="Longitude" type="decimal" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="StartTime" type="dateTime" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="EndTime" type="dateTime" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="Operational" type="string" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> <element name="ArchiveStart" type="dateTime" >> >> minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" /> >> >> </sequence> >> >> </complexType> >> >> <simpleType name="OperationalStatus"> >> >> <restriction base="string"> >> >> <enumeration value="Active" /> >> >> <enumeration value="Inactive" /> >> >> <enumeration value="Retired" /> >> >> <enumeration value="Pending" /> >> >> <enumeration value="Intermittent" /> >> >> </restriction> >> >> </simpleType> >> >> <simpleType name="GPSSampleRate"> >> >> <restriction base="string"> >> >> <enumeration value="highrate" /> >> >> <enumeration value="normal" /> >> >> </restriction> >> >> </simpleType> >> >> >> >> </schema> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM, keith chapman < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > Could you post the schema section for this operation please. I could >> >> > give >> >> > you a solution then. >> >> > >> >> > Thanks, >> >> > Keith. >> >> > >> >> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Matthew Beldyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi, I'm using Axis2 with Tomcat. I've been using SOAP to talk to my >> >> >> servlets, but recently the discussion came up wondering if we would >> >> >> use REST with our services. >> >> >> >> >> >> Currently, I send messages to our servlets similar to (headers >> pulled >> >> >> out): >> >> >> <mon:GPSSearch> >> >> >> <BRadius> >> >> >> <ser:Lat>59.362584</ser:Lat> >> >> >> <ser:Lon>-153.44467</ser:Lon> >> >> >> <ser:Radius>10</ser:Radius> >> >> >> </BRadius> >> >> >> <StartTime>2000-02-02T18:49:00.000-07:00</StartTime> >> >> >> </mon:GPSSearch> >> >> >> >> >> >> I would like to do something similar to >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http:// >> *.com:8080/axis2/services/GPSSearch/GPSSearch?ArchiveStartAfter=2008-06-15T00:00:00.000-07:00&BRadius=something >> >> >> (NOTE: >> >> >> >> >> >> http:// >> *.com:8080/axis2/services/GPSSearch/GPSSearch?ArchiveStartAfter=2008-06-15T00:00:00.000-07:00 >> >> >> behaves as I would expect) >> >> >> >> >> >> Unfortunately, I am unable to determine how to represent >> >> >> "BRadius=something" for any of our complex types. Initially I >> tried: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "BRadius=<ser:Lat>59.362584</ser:Lat><ser:Lon>-153.44467</ser:Lon><ser:Radius>10</ser:Radius>" >> >> >> which was passed to my code as >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "<BRadius><![CDATA[<ser:Lat>59.362584</ser:Lat><ser:Lon>-153.44467</ser:Lon><ser:Radius>10</ser:Radius>]]></BRadius>" >> >> >> >> >> >> Is there any way to represent complex types like this? If so, how? >> >> >> >> >> >> Best Regards, >> >> >> Matt Beldyk >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Keith Chapman >> >> > Senior Software Engineer >> >> > WSO2 Inc. >> >> > Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. >> >> > http://wso2.org/ >> >> > >> >> > blog: http://www.keith-chapman.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Calvin: Know what I pray for? >> >> Hobbes: What? >> >> Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept >> >> what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Keith Chapman >> > Senior Software Engineer >> > WSO2 Inc. >> > Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. >> > http://wso2.org/ >> > >> > blog: http://www.keith-chapman.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Calvin: Know what I pray for? >> Hobbes: What? >> Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept >> what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > -- > Keith Chapman > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. > Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. > http://wso2.org/ > > blog: http://www.keith-chapman.org >
