Hi all,
I have an interoperability problem when calling an Apache CXF Web
service (CXF version is 2.0.4) running under Apache Tomcat 6 from a VBA
client program using MS Office 2003 Web Services Toolkit 2.03. When
sending a request from the VBA client to the server, the response fails
with the fault "Found element {http://annuaire.ciss.lu}questions but
could not find matching RPC/Literal part". If I'm correct, the VBA
client sends the request using qualified namespace for element
"questions" but CXF expects an unqualified namespace. Due to technical
constraints, I have to use RPC/Literal encoding and cannot switch to
e.g. Document/Literal.
This is my web service:
package lu.ciss.annuaire.services;
@WebService(name="SimpleServiceName",
targetNamespace="http://annuaire.ciss.lu";)
@SOAPBinding(style=Style.RPC)
public interface SimpleService {
@WebMethod(operationName="GetAnswers")
@WebResult(name="answer")
public String getAnswers(@WebParam(name="questions") String[]
questions);
}
The VBA client sends the following request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAPSDK1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:SOAPSDK2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:SOAPSDK3="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAPSDK4:GetAnswers xmlns:SOAPSDK4="http://annuaire.ciss.lu";>
<SOAPSDK4:questions SOAPSDK3:arrayType="SOAPSDK1:string[5]"
SOAPSDK3:offset="[1]" SOAPSDK2:type="SOAPSDK3:Array">
<item>What?</item>
<item>Why?</item>
<item>Where?</item>
<item>Who?</item>
<item>When?</item>
</SOAPSDK4:questions>
</SOAPSDK4:GetAnswers>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
As you can see the "questions" parameter is qualified. I know of the
@XmlSchema annotation that you can place in the packge-info.java, but I
don't know how to set the elementFormDefault to "qualified" for the
namespace "http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array";. Moreover the problem remains
the same when using only simple types (e.g. integers or strings) instead
of an array: the elements describing the parameters are always
qualified. Here is an extract of the WSDL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:ns1="http://annuaire.ciss.lu";
xmlns:ns2="http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array";
xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; name="SimpleServiceName"
targetNamespace="http://annuaire.ciss.lu";>
<wsdl:types>
<xs:schema xmlns="http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array";
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
attributeFormDefault="unqualified"
elementFormDefault="unqualified"
targetNamespace="http://jaxb.dev.java.net/array";>
<xs:complexType final="#all" name="stringArray">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"
name="item" nillable="true" type="xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>
</wsdl:types>
<wsdl:message name="GetAnswers">
<wsdl:part name="questions" type="ns2:stringArray"></wsdl:part>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="GetAnswersResponse">
<wsdl:part name="answer" type="xsd:string"></wsdl:part>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:portType name="SimpleServiceName">
<wsdl:operation name="GetAnswers">
<wsdl:input message="ns1:GetAnswers" name="GetAnswers">
</wsdl:input>
<wsdl:output message="ns1:GetAnswersResponse"
name="GetAnswersResponse">
</wsdl:output>
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:portType>
</wsdl:definitions>
Can anyone confirm that the problem originates from the fact that
elementFormDefault is set to "unqualified" and setting it to "qualified"
could solve the problem? If so, how is it possible to instruct CXF in
general that parameter elements are always qualified?
Moreover, perhaps someone uses CXF with the MS Web services toolkit and
can share his experiences with me? Unfortunately, the toolkit seems
quite buggy ... :-(
Thank you very much for any comments.
Best regards,
Pierre
