i've used the "attachment" sample from IBM's Webservice site.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/webservicestoolkit
its different from the "echoattachment" sample, but it seems to be a good
SOAP/RPC implementation for attaching files and getting them to the server.
And it's WSDL describes the attachement parts (see below)
Im trying to use it to prototype an ad-hoc data interface that uses
SOAP/AXIS instead of SFTP or SSH. My problem is how to attach an array of
files rather than a fixed number - im thinking of creating a JAR on the
client and sending it to the server.
My other problem is how to get a "MessageContext" or a "ServletContext" out
of the RPC on the server. RPC seems to call into a method without passing
any useful references. I need the context in order to control the file
system and the path where i write the files to on the server.
I had to make minor code changes to the client and server sides in order to
alter the existing sample so that it would move 3 of my files from the
client to the server. Snips of my code are at the very bottom of this post.
The WSDL for the IBM "attachment" sample does describe the input/ output
parameters.
For example see "porttype" element below from file
"..\demos\attachments\webapp\attachments-interface.wsdl":
- <element name="attachments">
- <complexType>
- <sequence>
<element name="content" type="types:contentType" />
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</xsd:schema>
</types>
- <message name="RPCRequest">
<part name="listTitle" type="xsd:string" />
<part name="fileList" type="types:ArrayOfString" />
<part name="classFile" type="types:ArrayOfBinary" />
<part name="imageFile" type="types:ArrayOfBinary" />
<part name="htmlFile" type="xsd:string" />
</message>
- <message name="RPCResponse">
<part name="list" type="xsd:string" />
</message>
- <message name="MessageRequest">
<part element="types:listAttachments" name="listRequest" />
<part name="classFile" type="xsd:ArrayOfBinary" />
<part name="imageFile" type="xsd:ArrayOfBinary" />
<part name="htmlFile" type="xsd:string" />
</message>
- <portType name="RPCAttachmentService">
- <operation name="listAttachments">
<input message="tns:RPCRequest" />
<output message="tns:RPCResponse" />
</operation>
</portType>
* * * my code change to client file "servicebindingexample.java"
public static void bind(String wsdlURL, Call call) throws Exception {
if (WSTKConstants.WSTK_DEBUG)
System.out.println( "WSDL URL: " + wsdlURL );
if ( wsdlURL == null ) wsdlURL = wsdlSvcImplURL ;
//rcr change 1 line below String[] fileList= {"demo.class", "demo.jpg",
"demo.htm"};
String[] fileList= {"scnjava2.txt", "tm0104a.txt", "tm0116b.txt"};
* * * my code change to server file "attachmentservice.java"
protected String listAttachments( String listTitle,
String[] fileList,
Object[] parts, // this is the attachment object containing 3 files
...
for(int i=0; i< parts.length; ++i)
{
DataHandler datahandler= null;
Part part= null;
if( parts[i] instanceof Part){
part= (Part) parts[i];
// line below gets reference to the attachment ie. each of the 3 files
datahandler= AttachmentUtils.getActiviationDataHandler(part);
}
else datahandler= (DataHandler) parts[i];
// my changes for writing files on the server with same names as they had on
client
FileOutputStream fMOut = new FileOutputStream(
(new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"),fileList[i])));
int c;
BufferedInputStream in = new
BufferedInputStream(datahandler.getInputStream());
while((c=in.read()) != -1) {
fMOut.write(c);
}
in.close();
fMOut.flush();
