getting a parameter

[Paul Jones <pj...@novell.com>]

Hello, 
 
I am fairly new to axis so I may be missing something very obvious, but
I can not get the values of the parameters passed to our webservice from
the MessageContext.  I am writing an Authorization piece to the service
and need to know what the value of the first parameter is to verify that
the user can actually make this call. 
 
I have tried to go about this in a couple of ways so far.   
 
msgContext.getOperation().getParameter(0) returns a ParameterDesc which
tells me everything about the Parameter except the value.  This was
somewhat helpful in that I could see the name of the parameter so I know
I am getting the correct one.  I can not figure out a way to get the
value of the parameter using this information though. 
 
RPCElement reqRPC =
(RPCElement)msgContext.getRequestMessage().getSOAPEnvelope().getFirstBody();

RPCParam p = reqRPC.getParam(arg0); 
The above two lines give me the actual parameter as far as I can tell. 
performing a println on p shows me that I have the correct parameter
again.  The output is: 
<arg0 soapenc:arrayType=soapenc:string[1] xsi:type=soapenc:Array
xmlns:soapenc=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance> 
     <item xsi:type=soapenc:string>com.novell.supplychain.Item</item> 
</arg0> 
 
The value of item is what I am trying to get
(com.novell.supplychain.Item).  Calling p.item(0) returns null. 
 
Am I going the right direction or is there an easier/better way to get
the value of the parameter? 
 
Any help would be very appreciated. 
 
Paul Jones 

Re: getting a parameter

[av...@allesta.com]

Hi Paul,

This should get you where you want to go....

SOAPEnvelope    env  = messageContext.getRequestMessage().getSOAPEnvelope();
SOAPBodyElement e    = env.getFirstBody();
Iterator it          = e.getChildElements();
while (it.hasNext()) {
}

By iterating thru the child elements you should be able to retrieve the proper
information...

Al

Quoting Paul Jones <pj...@novell.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I am fairly new to axis so I may be missing something very obvious, but
> I can not get the values of the parameters passed to our webservice from
> the MessageContext.  I am writing an Authorization piece to the service
> and need to know what the value of the first parameter is to verify that
> the user can actually make this call.
>
> I have tried to go about this in a couple of ways so far.
>
> msgContext.getOperation().getParameter(0) returns a ParameterDesc which
> tells me everything about the Parameter except the value.  This was
> somewhat helpful in that I could see the name of the parameter so I know
> I am getting the correct one.  I can not figure out a way to get the
> value of the parameter using this information though.
>
> RPCElement reqRPC =
> (RPCElement)msgContext.getRequestMessage().getSOAPEnvelope().getFirstBody();
>
> RPCParam p = reqRPC.getParam(arg0);
> The above two lines give me the actual parameter as far as I can tell.
> performing a println on p shows me that I have the correct parameter
> again.  The output is:
> <arg0 soapenc:arrayType=soapenc:string[1] xsi:type=soapenc:Array
> xmlns:soapenc=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
> xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance>
>      <item xsi:type=soapenc:string>com.novell.supplychain.Item</item>
> </arg0>
>
> The value of item is what I am trying to get
> (com.novell.supplychain.Item).  Calling p.item(0) returns null.
>
> Am I going the right direction or is there an easier/better way to get
> the value of the parameter?
>
> Any help would be very appreciated.
>
> Paul Jones
>
>