Re: Help!

[Oliver Rettig <Ol...@telda.net>]

Hi Luyantao,

>      I am sorry to brother you.  I had read your mail_lists about using string[] as parameter on ms_client  invoking apache on Apache Soap mail list. And I met the same problem as yours.I wonder if you have solved the problem. If you hava , I hope you can tell me the  solution. Thank you very much in advance.

This is part of my wsdl-file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<definitions name="urn:KlickBlick"
             targetNamespace="urn:KlickBlickOperator"
      xmlns:wsdlns='urn:KlickBlickOperator'
             xmlns:tns="urn:xml-klickblick"
             xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
             xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
             xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">

  <types>
    <xsd:schema targetNamespace='urn:xml-klickblick'
                xmlns:SOAP-ENC='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'
                xmlns:wsdl='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/'
                elementFormDefault='qualified'>
      <xsd:complexType name='arrayOfString'>
        <xsd:complexContent>
          <xsd:restriction base='SOAP-ENC:Array'>
            <xsd:attribute ref='SOAP-ENC:arrayType' wsdl:arrayType='xsd:string[]'/>
          </xsd:restriction>
        </xsd:complexContent>
      </xsd:complexType>
    </xsd:schema>
  </types>

  <!-- message declns -->

  <message name='stringArrayRequest'>
    <part name='arrayOfString' type='tns:arrayOfString'/>
  </message>

  <message name='stringArrayResponse'>
    <part name='return' type='tns:arrayOfString'/>
  </message>

  <!-- port type declns -->
  <portType name="KlickBlickPortType">

    <operation name='dummy'>
        <input message='stringArrayRequest'/>
        <output message='stringArrayResponse'/>
    </operation>
 <!-- binding declns -->
  <binding name="KlickBlickSOAPBinding" type="KlickBlickPortType">
    <soap:binding style="rpc"
                  transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>

    <operation name="dummy">
      <soap:operation soapAction=""/>
      <input>
        <soap:body use="encoded"
                   namespace="urn:KlickBlickOperator"
                   encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
      </input>
      <output>
        <soap:body use="encoded"
                   namespace="urn:KlickBlickOperator"
                   encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
      </output>
    </operation>

This is part of my Deploymentdescriptor:

<isd:service xmlns:isd="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap/deployment"
             id="urn:KlickBlickOperator">
  <isd:provider type="java"
                scope="Application"
                methods="dummy">
    <isd:java class="KlickBlick.Soap.KlickBlickSoapService" static="false"/>
  </isd:provider>

  <isd:faultListener>org.apache.soap.server.DOMFaultListener</isd:faultListener>

  <isd:mappings>
    <isd:map encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
             xmlns:tns="" qname="tns:arrayOfString"
             java2XMLClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.ArraySerializer"
             xml2JavaClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.ArraySerializer"/>

The important thing is that xmlns:tns="": don´t use a real namespace here. So the QName of the array is "arrayOfString. This QName you have to use in the wsdl-file for the name of the request parameter. Thats a trick. ms-soap-toolkit does not  send the type of the request parameter. But if we use as name of the
request-parameter the type apache-soap can map it.

Hope I cauld help you. Good luck. I had a lot of trubble with it but now it works really fine. If you try to work with String[][] you get further problems. If you get a solution of it please tell it to me. I think I will need it in the next few month.

best regards

Oliver