RE: Problem Serialization/Deserialization with the BeanSerializer/Deserializer

[Brian Drake]

Karim --

One thing I see is that you don't set the return type on the call object.
You've got a QName reference for the bean mapping, and serializers and
deserializers set, but you didn't assign that mapping to the return 
type of the call.

Perhaps try this line right between the call.setOperationName() and the
invoke:

call.setReturnType(qn);

Hope that helps.  There might be more to the problem than just that,
of course..

-BWD.


-----Original Message-----
From: karim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem Serialization/Deserialization with the
BeanSerializer/Deserializer


Hi all axis-users,
I wanted to get on the client side a bean created on the server side.

The bean is described as follow :

public class XMLRepresentation implements java.io.Serializable {
 
  private byte[] xmlRepresentation_;
 
  public XMLRepresentation() {
  }
 
  public XMLRepresentation(Object representation) {
    createXMLRepresentation(representation);//fill the byte[] with a 
representation.toString().getBytes();
  }
 
  public byte[] getXMLRepresentation() {
    return (byte[])xmlRepresentation_.clone();
  }
}

In order to get it on the client side, I created a service corresponding 
to the method :
  public XMLRepresentation createXmlRepresentation()
  throws ServiceException {
    XMLRepresentation rep = new XMLRepresentation(getRepresentation());
    System.out.println(rep);
    return rep;
  }

my deploy.wsdd file contains the line :
  <beanMapping qname="myNS:XMLRepresentation" 
xmlns:myNS="urn:ConfiguratorManager" 
languageSpecificType="java:XMLRepresentation"/>

On the client side, I do :
QName qn = new QName("urn:ConfiguratorManager", "XMLRepresentation" );
     
call.registerTypeMapping(XMLRepresentation.class, qn,
                             new 
org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory(XMLRepresentation.class, 
qn),       
                             new 
org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory(XMLRepresentation.class, 
qn));

 call.setOperationName(new QName("http://soapinterop.org/";, 
"createXmlRepresentation"));
 XMLRepresentation rep = (XMLRepresentation)conveyor.invoke(new Object[] 
{});


EveryThing seems to work well except the fact that the byte array is null!!
I know that, on the server side, the byte array is conformed.
It seems that the byte array isn't serialized from the server  to the 
client.


I hope that I've clearly exposed my problem and that somebody will help  me.

Thank by advance
Karim