Hello everyone,
I trying to solve the following problem I have a class that looks something like this:
public class Security {
private int securityType;
private Object userData;
private String label;
[get/set methods deleted]
}
I want user data to be typeless so I can pass in some data from clients that have
special knowledge of server capabilities. But I only want special clients to pass in
this data. In other words I don't
want the type of userData to be known to clients in general.
As you can see this gives me a rudimentary mechanism for server API versioning. This
is what I'm really after but haven't looked into it enough to provide a robust
solution so I'm going with this
kludge for now.
Now the issue is that in the wsdl file axis generates
- <complexType abstract="true" name="Security">
- <sequence>
<element name="label" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" />
<element name="securityType" type="xsd:int" />
<element name="userData" nillable="true" type="tns1:Object" />
</sequence>
and then further down
- <complexType name="Object">
<sequence />
</complexType>
So then WSDLJava generates a class called Object. Which is somewhat undesirable but
still workable. What I wanted was to see userData element declared as xsd:anyType and
then have WSDL2Java use
java.lang.Object as opposed to somepackage.Object. (It takes the name of somepackage
from the wsdd file).
So my questions are these:
1. How do I declare a member variable that maps to type xsd:anyType.
2. What would WSDL2Java generate when it sees xsd:anyType.
3. What techniques should I use to provide server api versioning.
Best Regards and thanks in advance for any comments.
Vincent
