Do I need to use WSDL stubs ?

[Ao...@meridianp2p.com]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to SOAP and Axis and I'm hoping somebody can help me out.

I'm using Axis 1.1 to write a client to talk to a web service.  I have 
used the service WSDL to generate stubs etc.  The data to be passed to the 
service is XML data.  That is, the SOAP body of my message contains an XML 
string.  The WSDL definition of this parameter type is described in its 
own xsd file so the java type generated to represent this parameter is a 
Java object and not a simple string.  Consequently the generated remote 
interface expects an parameter of this type.

However, what the client will get passed is a an XML string which I guess 
is the string representation of the data to be sent rather than an 
instance of the Java object expected by the generated stubs and remote 
interface.  What I'm wondering is is there any way that I can convert this 
string to the required Java object without having to parse the XML string 
and call each individual set method on the Java object? 

I want my client to be able to just read in the XML string representing 
the data to be sent and to somehow use this as the parameter rather than 
generated object.  Is there any way of doing this or of converting the 
string to the java object? 

Thanks,
Aoife

Re: Do I need to use WSDL stubs ?

[Chandrasegaram Jeyakumaran <jk...@opensource.lk>]

Hi,

stubs are generated according to the wsdl. So if the wsdl specifies a
perticular type then generation will be respected to it.
I think the alternate way is to have a DII rather generationg stubs.(I am
not sure whether it will suit your problem).
Have a try with this.
If that is not your problem then,
Build your own serializer and deserializer and deploy them in the type
mapping.(put them in the typemapping tag)
for more details refer http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html

regards,
Jeyakumaran
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie to SOAP and Axis and I'm hoping somebody can help me out.
>
> I'm using Axis 1.1 to write a client to talk to a web service.  I have
> used the service WSDL to generate stubs etc.  The data to be passed to the
> service is XML data.  That is, the SOAP body of my message contains an XML
> string.  The WSDL definition of this parameter type is described in its
> own xsd file so the java type generated to represent this parameter is a
> Java object and not a simple string.  Consequently the generated remote
> interface expects an parameter of this type.
>
> However, what the client will get passed is a an XML string which I guess
> is the string representation of the data to be sent rather than an
> instance of the Java object expected by the generated stubs and remote
> interface.  What I'm wondering is is there any way that I can convert this
> string to the required Java object without having to parse the XML string
> and call each individual set method on the Java object?
>
> I want my client to be able to just read in the XML string representing
> the data to be sent and to somehow use this as the parameter rather than
> generated object.  Is there any way of doing this or of converting the
> string to the java object?
>
> Thanks,
> Aoife
>
>


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