Compound data types... Please respond...

[Sijo Kuriakose <ks...@yopa.com>]

Hi Scott,
 I have still not figured out how to invoke a server side function which
takes an array as a parameter from the apache soap client.
 I do understand that arrays are part of soap specification. But does the
apache client implementation  provide a way by which we can create a soap
request which contains an array?

 I would like an open discussion on the following issues.

1) The current implementation treats compound data types as java objects. We
can as well use rmi for this. Is this correct approach? What if the soap
server is implemented in some other language ?

2) Is there any way we can map a compound data type to a java object? What I
mean is a mechanism similar to corba, where idl files are mapped to java
classes.

3) Why can't we have a simple mechanism where the soap message is
enacpsulated to an object?
If the soap is used for rpc, then we need some mechanism where we can access
the compund data types inside the function.

Thanks and regards
Sijo

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Merritt [mailto:SMerritt@abilizer.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:20 AM
To: 'soap-user@xml.apache.org'
Cc: 'ksijo@yopa.com'
Subject: RE: Compound data types


Still, Arrays are a part of SOAP.

Check out http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/

Specifically, 5.1 Rules for Encoding Types in XML

"8.  Arrays are compound values (see also section 5.4.2). SOAP arrays are
defined as having a type of "SOAP-ENC:Array" or a type derived there from.

SOAP arrays have one or more dimensions (rank) whose members are
distinguished by ordinal position. An array value is represented as a series
of elements reflecting the array, with members appearing in ascending
ordinal sequence.

<and there's a whole lot more>

-----Original Message-----
From: Sijo Kuriakose [mailto:ksijo@yopa.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 5:09 PM
To: soap-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: RE: Compound data types


Hi Scott,
 I am afraid that you did not notice the array simbol. I am trying to pass
an array of Strings here.
Thanks and regards
Sijo

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Merritt [mailto:SMerritt@abilizer.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:46 PM
To: 'soap-user@xml.apache.org'
Subject: RE: Compound data types


As a SOAP newbie myself, I think it's safe to say that you are in good
shape.  You're just dealing with strings, and hopefully all clients will be
developed in an environment that has strings.

Just because you're using a Java string class doesn't mean it won't work.
It should return a language independent string result so all clients can
understand.

Try it out...  You can deploy your web service that takes a string and
retuns a string and connect to it with something such as a Perl or VB client
that also has their own definition of strings, but the SOAP client library
should figure that out.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sijo Kuriakose [mailto:ksijo@yopa.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:24 AM
To: Sanjiva Weerawarana
Cc: Soapusers; Soapdev
Subject: RE: Compound data types


Hi Sanjiva,
 I am sorry that I did not put the question correctly.
 The address book example shows a way to pass java objects. In my case, I am
writing a server to provide some service on internet. I have a restriction
of, the client being written in any language.
 To be precise, I need to enable the client to invoke the following method.

 public String register ( String [] Interests );

 How do I invoke this method from the soap client?

Thanks and regards
Sijo





-----Original Message-----
From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:sanjiva@watson.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:16 PM
To: Sijo Kuriakose
Subject: Re: Compound data types


Please look at the samples - addressbook sample has something
similar.

Sanjiva.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sijo Kuriakose" <ks...@yopa.com>
To: <sa...@watson.ibm.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: Compound data types


> Hi,
> 1) How do I send a compound data type to the server?
>  To be specific
>  I want to send the following to the server and the server should print
the
> values.
>
>  Student Info
> Name
> ID
> SSN
>
>  Contact Info
> Phone
> email
>
>   A student can have more than one contact info.
>
>
>  How do I do this ?
>   I am able to make simple rpc calls using simple parameters like string,
> long etc.
>
> 2) Is there any good document on the Apache implementation of SOAP?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Sijo


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