I have read a LOT of discussions concerning problems serializing and deserializing arrays between an Axis server and a .NET client but can't seem to find any definitive discussion/document. Is there one?
Secondly, I have a .NET client that is attempting to deserialize an array of custom types that are serialized by an Axis server. I am using Axis 1.2 beta. The Axis server is configured for document/litteral (wrapped). The method being invoked by the client is called getFactors(); The SOAP response being sent by the server looks as follows: --------------------------- getFactors Reponse ------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope ...namespaces omitted...> <soapenv:Body> <getFactorsResponse xmlns="http://object.hydra.com";> <factors xsi:type="ns1:Factor" xmlns:ns1="http://object.hydra.com";> <name>Root Factor</name> <id>f_root</id> </factors> <factors xsi:type="ns2:Factor" xmlns:ns2="http://object.hydra.com";> <name>Factor 1</name> <id>f_1</id> </factors> <factors xsi:type="ns3:Factor" xmlns:ns3="http://object.hydra.com";> <name>Factor 2</name> <id>f_2</id> </factors> </getFactorsResponse> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- The relevant fragments from my wsdd file are as follows (some namespaces omitted): ----------------- WSDD operation and typemapping fragments ------------------- <operation name="getFactors" qname="ns:getFactors" returnQName="ns1:factors" returnType="ns1:FactorArray"> <parameter name="ids" type="ns1:stringArray"/> </operation> <typeMapping qname="ns1:FactorArray" type="java:com.erisk.hydra.object.Factor[]" serializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.ArraySerializerFactory" deserializer="org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.ArrayDeserializerFactory" encodingStyle=""/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- The relevant fragments from my WSDL are as follows (some namespaces omitted): --------- WSDL element and type fragments (operation & message ommitted) ------- <element name="getFactors"> <complexType> <sequence> <element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="ids" type="intf:stringArray"/> </sequence> </complexType> </element> <element name="getFactorsResponse"> <complexType> <sequence> <element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="factors" type="intf:FactorArray"/> </sequence> </complexType> </element> <complexType name="FactorArray"> <sequence> <element name="factor" type="intf:Factor" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/> </sequence> </complexType> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- I have a couple of questions: 1) How come Axis doesn't create a single <factors> container element with many <factor> elements as the WSDL schema seems to describe? The <factors> array item elements in the response are being driven by the {returnQName="ns1:factors"} in the wsdd operation. Why isn't it using the FactorArray definition from the WSDL? 2) If this response is correct (with no <factors> container element), how does one make this work with a .NET client which seems to expect a container element (to provide to the XmlArrayAttribute if your familiar with .NET webservices)? Thanks Eric Chijioke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
