Problem in returning an array in a container

[Ranjiith Selvarajan <ra...@yahoo.com>]

hey,

As my subject line says I'm facing a problem when I
try to send an array in a container with Axis 1.2.1.
Here are the steps I followed.

The service at the server side returns the following
UserCollection.
(getUsers method in the service class returns
UserCollection.)

UserCollection
{
	User[] users;
}


I have defined an arrayMapping for 'User[]',
beanMapping for 'User' and beanMapping for
'UserCollection'.

I generate WSDL using (Java2WSDL) and client side java
files using (WSDL2Java).
As I run the client side code it failed with
ArrayStoreException with a message cannot convert to
bean etc.
(some serialization issue)

After going thru some forum discussions I added the
following (indexed) to the 'UserCollection' object.

UserCollection
{

	User[] users;

	setUsers(int i, User user)
	{
		users[i] = user;
	}

	getUsers(int i)
	{
		return users[i];
	}
}
And things started working fine as expected. I was
able to use the webservice (got the list of users).

But the *ServiceSoapBindingImpl that got generated at
the client side had return as 'User[]' and not
'UserCollection' as defined at the server side.
I would like to know why is this and what needs to be
corrected for the above to return 'UserCollection' ?
(getUsers returned User[] instead of UserCollection.)

Being a newbie I tried the options (-u LITERAL and -y
WRAPPED) to figure out what difference it makes and if
it can help in the current scenario but it did not.

Looking forward for a response.

cheerz
ranjiith s


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