I'v send already JAXB serializer, very beta version, probably to soap-dev
list.
Resending now again to soap-user.
Radek Wisniewski
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Balaji Iyer wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone has had a look at the AddressBook demo in Apache Soap.
> Incase you have seen that, can someone throw more light with respect to
> generating xml feeds from a vector of java objects. The AddressBook demo
> has a SOAP Client (GetAllListings.java) which uses
>
> call.setMethodName("getAllListings");
> call.setEncodingStyleURI(Constants.NS_URI_LITERAL_XML);
>
> getAllListings method in the AddressBook Class does just the
> generation of a DOM-TREE !! (Eeeks! !! )
>
> In my project usage...
> For eg. Say I have a method returning a Hashtable of
> MailInformationObjects. What should I do to convert this Hashtable into
> XML using Apache-SOAP.
> Solutions I propose ... (a) and (b) ... (a) is straight forward but
> going to be messy. (b) needs to have the configuration set up well
>
> (a) Use something like an Element Generator like in the AddressBook
> sample (part of code pasted)
> public Element getAllListings()
> {
> DocumentBuilder xdb =
> XMLParserUtils.getXMLDocBuilder();
> Document doc = xdb.newDocument();
> Element bookEl = doc.createElement("AddressBook");
>
> bookEl.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("\n"));
>
> for (Enumeration keys = name2AddressTable.keys();
> keys.hasMoreElements();)
> {
> String name = (String)keys.nextElement();
> Address address = (Address)name2AddressTable.get(name);
> Element listingEl = doc.createElement("Listing");
> -----
> ----
> ----
> -------
> ---------
> listingEl.appendChild(addressEl);
> listingEl.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("\n "));
> bookEl.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(" "));
> bookEl.appendChild(listingEl);
> bookEl.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("\n"));
> }
>
> return bookEl;
> }
>
> Then use this Element in the SOAP Client Program and switch to XML
> Literal encoding and use the XML feed ?
>
> (b) Use some mapping facilities of APACHE-SOAP , (WHICH I AM NOT AWARE
> OF )
> or use either JAXB1.0 or Castor 0.9.2 (I have used before) to
> generate xml feeds from my Hashtable of MailInformation Objects!!
>
> Has anyone ecountered this situation earlier... ? ? I am sure someone
> can propose more solutions?
> Pls, throw more light and roll this discussion.
>
> Regards,
> Balaji Iyer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evyatar Shoresh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: xml to bean convertition.
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a client-server aplication using soap as my messaging, my aim
> is to send a xml document from the client that will be transfered as an
> object ( pre-defined in a deployment descriptor ) to the method in the
> server as a parameter.
>
> My problem is that no matter which descriptor i use the server takes my
> xml as is and transfers it to the method as an Element object.
>
> Do you have any sample showing such a scenario?
>
> Thanx alot.
>
JAXBSerializer.tgz
