FW: client calling service that returns array possible ?

Quinten Verheyen Wed, 11 Feb 2004 01:09:41 -0800

In addition I add my code for the Client class :

Service service = new Service();

        Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
        call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new java.net.URL(endpoint) );
        call.setProperty(call.SOAPACTION_USE_PROPERTY, new Boolean(true));
        call.setProperty(call.SOAPACTION_URI_PROPERTY, "soapactionUri");
        call.setOperationName( "operationName" );

// From now on I'm guessing ...

// I assume I should provide the name of a local class

QName qn = new QName( "CustomContainer" );

// Register the type mapping, because I receive "<string>string</string><string>string</string>" as a response I use the
// Array (de)serializer classes

call.registerTypeMapping(CustomContainer.class, qn, new ArraySerializerFactory(), new ArrayDeserializerFactory() );

// set the QName class as a return type
call.setReturnType( qn );

        // Invoking the method is no problem (invokeOneWay works), catching the result properly however ..
        Object results = call.invoke( new Object[] {} );

        ArrayList test = (ArrayList) results; // casting to ArrayList is just a guess, but it works

        for (int i = 0; i < test.size(); i++) {
            System.out.println( (String) test.get(i) );
        }

The output is of the for loop is :

        250ad245-6940-4b47-b474-6f2289ce15c1
        e32df6d3-5999-47ce-9283-709719d7ae8a
        c4a38157-706e-4ac1-a181-b90c1f9378e1

The problem is .. I don't know what QName class I should provide, it doesn't matter if I provide an existing class (e.g. String.class) or a custom one. The output remains the same.
And also I don't know what the return type of the invoked call is. I guessed that an ArrayList does the job, but the output isn't readable.

Again, I didn't write the services, they just gave me a URL to the WSDL.

Any help or advice at all is very much needed and appreciated :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Quinten Verheyen
Sent: 10 February 2004 20:17
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: client calling service that returns array possible ?

Hi,

I am new to Axis so if my question seems repetitive, my apologies.

I have to write a client that can call WSDL services.

Most of the services return an int, wich should pose no problem (= call.setReturnType(XMLType.XSD_INT) ).

However, I am stuck when I see this :

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <ResponseName xmlns="url">
      <methodName>
          <string>string</string>
          <string>string</string>
      </methodName>
    </ResponseName>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

The method name returns an array of strings (I assume) instead of a string.
I don't know what the return type is in this case.
No matter what I try, I get a (logical) error :

org.xml.sax.SAXException: SimpleDeserializer encountered a child element, which is NOT expected, in something it was trying to deserialize.

Expected I guess, but that doesn't give me any clue about how to solve this problem.

Sure I saw a couple of threads and mails about using custom (de)serializers etc. BUT I am only using that WDSL, I didn't develop it, so I cannot write
custom beans because they wouldn't be recognized. At least, that's how I understood it.

I sure would appreciate the help, cause this thing needs to be solved quite quickly ..

Verheyen Quinten

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