Attachments in SOAP are analogous to attachments in your email. It can handle any file type as far as I know. Take a look at the SAAJ documentation for how to do it. I believe there's also an attachments example included with Axis.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey J Gaynor/jqhome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:17 PM Subject: Re: I am new to axis, and got exception...little help please !!! > On 01/09/2003 11:09:12 am "James Carman" wrote: > >You could send the file as an attachment to the SOAP message. > > Interesting. Would this be able to handle large files? (I'm thinking in the > multimegabyte to gigabyte range even). What about binary files? I know that > SOAP chokes on illegal characters. Does it have better handling of this as > attachments? > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jeffrey J Gaynor/jqhome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:03 PM > >Subject: Re: I am new to axis, and got exception...little help please !!! > > > > > >> > >> You are trying, basically, to use this service to write your own > ftp-like > >> service, right? > >> > >> I'm no expert -- I'm just a beginner myself -- but it seems to me from > >your > >> description that this cannot be done. If you are sending an Object then > >all > >> that exists on the other end is an Object, with no other functionality. > >> What AXIS will do is send over whatever attributes it has specified in a > >> serializer/deserializer pair and reconstitute the object at the > receiving > >> end. Unless you have written some custom code to do this, you get > nothing. > >> If you have used the WSDL utilities and it makes noises about defaulting > >to > >> "anyType" it is telling you it will cheerfully send nothing. :o> > >> > >> Of course, I might be wrong. If anyone on the list could suggest a way > of > >> remotely sending/receiving files, that would be extremely interesting. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> > >> -- J > >> > >> On 01/09/2003 10:52:35 am Fatih Mustacoglu wrote: > >> >Hi all, > >> > > >> >I am trying to implement a file copy service using axis...I am sending > a > >> >FileInputStream object to the webservice which is expecting an type > >> object, and > >> >then I am casting the object type to my original type FileInputStream > >> object > >> >inside the method webservice filecopy method, then I got this > >exception.: > >> > > >> >WSDLException: faultCode=OTHER_ERROR: Can't find prefix for > >> >'http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema'. Namespace prefixes must be set on > the > >> >Definition object using the addNamespace(...) method.: > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.util.xml.DOMUtils.getPrefix(Unknown Source) > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.util.xml.DOMUtils.getQualifiedValue(Unknown > >> Source) > >> > at > com.ibm.wsdl.util.xml.DOMUtils.printQualifiedAttribute(Unknown > >> >Source) > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLWriterImpl.printParts(Unknown Source) > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLWriterImpl.printMessages(Unknown > Source) > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLWriterImpl.printDefinition(Unknown > >Source) > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLWriterImpl.writeWSDL(Unknown Source) > >> > at com.ibm.wsdl.xml.WSDLWriterImpl.getDocument(Unknown Source) > >> > at org.apache.axis.wsdl.fromJava.Emitter.emit(Emitter.java:236) > >> > at org.apache.axis.wsdl.fromJava.Emitter.emit(Emitter.java:289) > >> > at org.apache.axis.wsdl.Java2WSDL.run(Java2WSDL.java:458) > >> > at org.apache.axis.wsdl.Java2WSDL.main(Java2WSDL.java:497) > >> >Can any body have any idea? am I doing sth wrong? thanks for the > helps.. > >> > > >> >fatih > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >--------------------------------- > >> >Do you Yahoo!? > >> >New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > >> > >> > >> > > >
