Deserializing beans ( serializing works ! )

[Russell Brown <ru...@Freeserve.com>]

Hi all, 

I am having problems with deserializing beans. Below is the SOAP request sent by the Web Service client, as you can see the ArgumentSet class is serialized ok. However I get an Axis Fault when running the client as follows:

org.xml.sax.SAXException: Deserializing parameter 'arg1':  could not find deserializer for type {urn:BeanService}ArgumentSet

This baffles me as the SOAP request ( sniffed with TCPMON ) shows the ArgumentSet was serialized accurately:

POST /axis/services/PAFLookUp HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/*
User-Agent: Axis/1.0
Host: localhost
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Length: 1209

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <soapenv:Body>
  <ns1:getReturn soapenv:encodingStyle=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="PAFLookUp">
   <arg1 href="#id0"/>
  </ns1:getReturn>
  <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns2:ArgumentSet" xmlns:soapenc=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns2="urn:BeanService">
   <arguments href="#id1"/>
   <identifier xsi:type="xsd:string">lookupPostCode</identifier>
  </multiRef>
  <multiRef id="id1" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="ns3:Map" xmlns:ns3=" http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:soapenc=" http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
   <item>
    <key xsi:type="xsd:string">postcode</key>
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string">LS176PJ</value>
   </item>
   <item>
    <key xsi:type="xsd:string">addressLine1</key>
    <value xsi:type="xsd:string">2</value>
   </item>
  </multiRef>
 </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

The pertinent bit of client code is:

QName    qn      = new QName( "urn:BeanService", "ArgumentSet" );
         call.registerTypeMapping(ArgumentSet.class, qn,
                      new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializerFactory(ArgumentSet.class, qn),
                      new org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanDeserializerFactory(ArgumentSet.class, qn));
//some more code
call.addParameter( "arg1", qn, ParameterMode.IN );
call.setReturnType( qn );

I would be very grateful if someone can tell me how to use the Axis BeanDeserializerFactory to deserialize a bean type object

Many thanks in advance 

Russell

 Russell Brown
Application Developer
Freeserve.com Plc
The Malthouse, Chadwick Street, Leeds LS10 1LJ
Telephone: 0113 222 9110