wsdl2js generated code fails to parse a Java Map property

[Robbie Gieze]

Hello,

I'm using Apache CXF to expose a Java object which has the following property:

private Map<String,String> constraintParams;

This gives me a correct WSDL file and I can use the SOAP method with no 
problems from tools like SOAPUI.

But I want to use the SOAP service from javascript. So I use the wsdl2js tool 
of CXF and it generates a .js file. When I use the javascript file it fails to 
parse the SOAP response from the server. 

The SOAP XML part that the javascript code fails to deserialize looks like this:

  <ns3:constraintParams>
    <ns1:entry>
      <ns1:key>regex</ns1:key>
      <ns1:value>^.+$</ns1:value>
    </ns1:entry>
  </ns3:constraintParams>

It seems like the generated js code tries to deserialize the <entry> tag but 
the wsdl2js generator didn't actually generate that function, so the code of 
the generator is calling a function that it didn't generate. The following line 
in the js gives a "services_systemcontrol_mydomain_com__entry_deserialize" is 
not defined" error.

   arrayItem = 
services_systemcontrol_mydomain_com__entry_deserialize(cxfjsutils, curElement);

At this moment the curElement property has the <entry> tag but the deserialize 
function simply is not in the generated js file.

Do I do anything wrong or is there another way that does work that I could look 
into?

On the server side I'm using 2.2.4, I tested the wsdl2js tool of versions 
2.2.4, 2.2.12, 2.3.2 the result is always as above.

Thanks

Robbie