I'm looking into this, and hopefully will have an answer next week.
-Tom
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Dominic Battre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I should have mentioned, that replacing these two lines (following the
> mentioned documentation) in my implementation:
>
> SOAPElement sUsersElement =
> ObjectSerializer.toSOAPElement( sUsers, AGConstants.AG_SERVICEUSERS );
> AnyHelper.setAny(context, sUsersElement);
>
> with these two lines:
>
> Element e =
> ObjectSerializer.toElement(sUsers, AGConstants.AG_SERVICEUSERS);
> context.set_any(new MessageElement[] { new MessageElement(e) });
>
> seems to fix the problem.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dominic
>
> Dominic Battre wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think I have found an error in either the ObjectSerializer/AnyHelper
>> implementation or the way the documentation suggests to use them. I'd like
>> to hear your opinion, whether this is my fault or whether I should file a
>> bug report.
>>
>> Problem description
>> ===================
>>
>> I need to serialize objects as AnyTypes and retrieve them later. This
>> works for trivial types but not complex types.
>>
>> Let's have a look the documentation that can be found here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/development/4.1.1/common/javawscore/developer/index.html
>>
>> You can find this example source code (section 5.2.1.2. Working with
>> AnyContentType content):
>>
>> // convert Java object into SOAPElement
>> EndpointReferenceType object = ...;
>> QName elementName = new QName("http://example.com";, "EPR");
>> SOAPElement element = ObjectSerializer.toSOAPElement(object,
>> elementName);
>>
>> // set the SOAPlement as Any content
>> AnyContentType bean = ...;
>> AnyHelper.setAny(bean, element);
>>
>> To make it more concrete, I have filled the blanks:
>>
>> EndpointReferenceType object = new EndpointReferenceType();
>>
>> // the following line is new object.setAddress(new
>> AttributedURI("https://foo.bar.com/service";));
>>
>> QName elementName = new QName("http://example.com";, "EPR");
>> SOAPElement element = ObjectSerializer.toSOAPElement(object,
>> elementName);
>>
>> System.out.println(element);
>>
>> Note that I specify an Address in the EPR (contrary to the example code).
>> This is the output of the println statement:
>>
>> (formating done by myself)
>> <ns1:EPR xsi:type="ns2:EndpointReferenceType"
>> xmlns:ns1="http://example.com";
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>> xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/03/addressing";>
>> <Address xsi:type="xsd:anyURI"
>> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
>> https://foo.bar.com/service
>> </Address>
>> <ReferenceProperties xsi:type="ns2:ReferencePropertiesType"/>
>> <ReferenceParameters xsi:type="ns2:ReferenceParametersType"/>
>> <PortType xsi:type="ns2:AttributedQName" xsi:nil="true"/>
>> <ServiceName xsi:type="ns2:ServiceNameType" xsi:nil="true"/>
>> </ns1:EPR>
>>
>> Note that all elements beneath /ns1:EPR do not have namespaces.
>>
>> If I deserialize this again:
>>
>> String xml = element.toString();
>> EndpointReferenceType epr = (EndpointReferenceType)
>> ObjectDeserializer.deserialize(
>> new InputSource(new StringReader(xml) ),
>> EndpointReferenceType.class);
>> System.out.println("Address = " + epr.getAddress());
>> System.out.println("Any = " + AnyHelper.toSingleString(epr.get_any()));
>>
>> The address is empty and all attributes are stored in epr.get_any().
>>
>> Address = null
>> Any = <Address xsi:type="xsd:anyURI"
>> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";>https://foo.bar.com/service</Address><ReferenceProperties
>> xsi:type="ns2:ReferencePropertiesType"
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
>> <ReferenceParameters xsi:type="ns2:ReferenceParametersType"
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
>> <PortType xsi:type="ns2:AttributedQName" xsi:nil="true"
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
>> <ServiceName xsi:type="ns2:ServiceNameType" xsi:nil="true"
>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"/>
>>
>> The deserializer cannot parse the XML code correctly because the
>> namespaces are missing. Note that the same problem occurs if I don't
>> serialize with element.toString() but store the element as in the example:
>> AnyHelper.setAny(bean, element);
>>
>> If I used a different datatype than EndpointReferenceType without an
>> <xs:any/>* I'd have received an exception.
>>
>> Problem Analysis
>> ================
>>
>> The problem is the ObjectSerializer.toSOAPElement(object, elementName);
>> call. During the serialization, Axis checks in BeanSerializer.java:147
>> serialize(QName, Attributes, Object, SerializationContext), whether it
>> serializes to a SOAP Context and drops the namespaces:
>>
>> // If we're SOAP encoded, just use the local part,
>> // not the namespace. Otherwise use the whole
>> // QName.
>> if (isEncoded) {
>> qname = new QName(element.getXmlName().getLocalPart());
>> } else {
>> qname = element.getXmlName();
>> }
>>
>> This is the reason, why all nested objects are serialized without
>> namespaces.
>>
>>
>> Question
>> ========
>>
>> My question is now:
>>
>> Who is to blame?
>>
>> 1) Me
>> 2) Axis
>> 3) ObjectSerializer or AnyHelper
>> 4) the Globus documentation
>>
>> Should I file a bug? If yes, to which component.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>>
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