On Tue February 16 2010 5:55:56 pm John Doyle wrote: > I'm looking for advice on the best kind of client to generate for a > service. > > The service has operations like create and update that take an abstract > Vehicle type as a parameter. What's actually expected is a Car, Truck, > Airplane or Skateboard, all of which are Vehicles, but are not defined as > types in the WSDL. Only Vehicle is defined and it contains an unbounded > <any> to hold the properties of Car, Truck, etc. I do know the properties > of Car, Truck, etc from external info.
What type of external info? A separate XSD that we could run xsd->java on it to generate new types? Or just a document of some sort describing it? > So my question is, what kind of client would be best. If I generate the > client with wsdl2java, I don't know how to add the properties of the > derived classes so that they will be marshaled correctly. Is there a > class that I can use that will allow me to specify and name and value such > that simple elements would be marshaled into the request? Well, if you generate from the wsdl, the <any> should map into a List<Object> type thing I think. Each "Object" in there can just be a DOM element. Thus, you can fill in the List with whatever properties are needed. > > I suspect that I may need to use the Dispatch API and create the XML > myself? Does that seem the best option? That's definitely one alternative. Depending on the complexity of the XML, it may be the easiest. -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
