OK, I'll provide a bit more info to see if that helps elicit some assistance. We are using Axis 1.2RC2. We are only using Axis on the client side.
We are using anyType to allow us to pass any object type to our server app. We need to use the XSD types, and several types defined by our WSDL. The WSDL segment that declares this is:
<complexType name="Option">
<sequence>
<element name="name" type="xsd:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" nillable="true"/>
<element name="value" type="xsd:anyType" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" nillable="true"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
When run through Wsdl2Java, it produces a class named Option.java (see below for src).
Now, when the value field in the Option class is actually a java.lang.Boolean, this field gets serialized as a soapenc:boolean, as opposed to a xsd:boolean. This causes interop issues. I know there have been other issues similar to this in the past; I reported one of them about 2 years ago, and it was finally fixed for complex types in the 1.2 RC releases, but apparently, similar things still happen in other circumstances. This did work fine in the original 1.0RC1, which has only recently upgraded from (finally). The same thing happens when using other native types, such as int, long, string, etc… here is a snippet of the SOAP generated:
<item xsi:type="ns1:Option">
<name xsi:type="xsd:string">noSourceFormatting</name>
<value xsi:type="soapenc:boolean">true</value>
</item>
Here's my questions:
1. What is the correct behavior? Is this a bug? I believe that classes such as Boolean, String, Integer, should always be serialized using the XSD types. There seems to be some belief that if an element is nillable, it needs to use the soapenc types, but I don’t see why that is. Obviously, if the value field in the Option class has a java.lang.Boolean, it is not nill.
2. Is there a way to control this? Is there a property that can be set to control this? Can I write custom (de)serializers to properly handle types such as java.lang.Boolean? Is there a method/class that I can modify to change this behavior? I'm more than willing to modify the behavior of Axis to do this, and see what other repurcussions the change has, but I don't know where to start inside the code.
Thanks for any help and/or commiseration with this issue,
Mike Ryan
Option.java src:
/**
* Option.java
*
* This file was auto-generated from WSDL
* by the Apache Axis 1.2RC2 Nov 16, 2004 (12:19:44 EST) WSDL2Java emitter.
*/
package samurai.ws.axis.transform;
public class Option implements java.io.Serializable {
private java.lang.String name;
private java.lang.Object value;
public Option() {
}
public Option(
java.lang.String name,
java.lang.Object value) {
this.name = name;
this.value = value;
}
/**
* Gets the name value for this Option.
*
* @return name
*/
public java.lang.String getName() {
return name;
}
/**
* Sets the name value for this Option.
*
* @param name
*/
public void setName(java.lang.String name) {
this.name = name;
}
/**
* Gets the value value for this Option.
*
* @return value
*/
public java.lang.Object getValue() {
return value;
}
/**
* Sets the value value for this Option.
*
* @param value
*/
public void setValue(java.lang.Object value) {
this.value = value;
}
private java.lang.Object __equalsCalc = null;
public synchronized boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj) {
if (!(obj instanceof Option)) return false;
Option other = (Option) obj;
if (obj == null) return false;
if (this == obj) return true;
if (__equalsCalc != null) {
return (__equalsCalc == obj);
}
__equalsCalc = obj;
boolean _equals;
_equals = true &&
((this.name==null && other.getName()==null) ||
(this.name!=null &&
this.name.equals(other.getName()))) &&
((this.value==null && other.getValue()==null) ||
(this.value!=null &&
this.value.equals(other.getValue())));
__equalsCalc = null;
return _equals;
}
private boolean __hashCodeCalc = false;
public synchronized int hashCode() {
if (__hashCodeCalc) {
return 0;
}
__hashCodeCalc = true;
int _hashCode = 1;
if (getName() != null) {
_hashCode += getName().hashCode();
}
if (getValue() != null) {
_hashCode += getValue().hashCode();
}
__hashCodeCalc = false;
return _hashCode;
}
// Type metadata
private static org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc typeDesc =
new org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc(Option.class, true);
static {
typeDesc.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.outsideinsdk.com/transformation_server/transform/1/0/", "Option"));
org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc();
elemField.setFieldName("name");
elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("", "name"));
elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "string"));
elemField.setMinOccurs(0);
typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField);
elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc();
elemField.setFieldName("value");
elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("", "value"));
elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "anyType"));
elemField.setMinOccurs(0);
typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField);
}
/**
* Return type metadata object
*/
public static org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc getTypeDesc() {
return typeDesc;
}
/**
* Get Custom Serializer
*/
public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer getSerializer(
java.lang.String mechType,
java.lang.Class _javaType,
javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) {
return
new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializer(
_javaType, _xmlType, typeDesc);
}
/**
* Get Custom Deserializer
*/
public static org.apache.axis.encoding.Deserializer getDeserializer(
java.lang.String mechType,
java.lang.Class _javaType,
javax.xml.namespace.QName _xmlType) {
return
new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializer(
_javaType, _xmlType, typeDesc);
}
}
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to set the marshalled type for anyType?
Hello-
I have a service that has a parameter that is defined as anyType. When this parameter is passed a java Boolean, it is serialized as a "soapenc:boolean". In order to interoperate with another SOAP impl, I would like to have this serialized as an "xsd:boolean". How do I configure Axis to do this?
Thanks,
Mike Ryan
