Re: java to wsdl: How to generate minOccurs="0" instead of nillable="true"

[Martin Grotzke <ma...@javakaffee.de>]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:54 -0400, Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> I suggest that you file a feature enhancement request to add a
> parameter to generate minOccurs="0".

good idea, just submitted.

cheers,
martin


> 
> Anne
> 
> On 8/31/05, Martin Grotzke <ma...@javakaffee.de> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:57 -0400, Mike Woinoski wrote:
>         > Martin Grotzke wrote:
>         > > Btw, the concrete problem that we had has to do with
>         C# / .NET 1.1:
>         > > if you send an empty xml-element (as you showed below)
>         for 
>         > > some primitive C#-type (e.g. int, long), then the .NET
>         > > deserializer crashes, as it cannot parse the empty value.
>         > > If you do not send this empty element (which is forced by
>         > > minOccurs="0" as it seems), the .NET deserializer does
>         his 
>         > > job.
>         >
>         > I've only seen Java2WSDL define nillable="true" on
>         non-primitives (Strings,
>         > value types, etc.) If Java2WSDL is adding nillable="true" to
>         primitives, it may
>         > be an Axis bug. You may want to look on Bugzilla to see if
>         anyone has reported
>         > it yet.
>         In java we use the wrapper types, not the primitives. But a
>         java Integer
>         is represented by an xsd:int, which is mapped to the C#
>         primitive int. 
>         So it's not an axis bug...
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Martin
>         
>         
>         >
>         > Regards,
>         > Mike
>         >
>         > >
>         > > Thanx again,
>         > > Martin
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:16 -0400, Mike Woinoski wrote: 
>         > >
>         > >>Martin,
>         > >>I don't think there is a Java2WSDL option that adds
>         minOccurs="0" to an element
>         > >>definition. However, you can edit the WSDL manually and
>         add it yourself (sounds 
>         > >>like a good job for an Ant task or shell script.)
>         > >>
>         > >>BTW, an element can have both nillable="true" and
>         minOccurs="0". The semantics
>         > >>of these attributes is different: nillable="true" allows
>         an XML element to have 
>         > >>a value equivalent to a Java null reference:
>         > >>         <...
>         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>         > >>       <myelement xsi:nil="true"/>
>         > >>
>         > >>This is different than a plain empty element:
>         > >>    <myelement/>
>         > >>which is equivalent to a Java String object with length
>         0. 
>         > >>
>         > >>Mike
>         > >>
>         > >>Martin Grotzke wrote:
>         > >>
>         > >>>Hello,
>         > >>>
>         > >>>when creating the wsdl from java classes, is there's any
>         way 
>         > >>>to change the default behavior from generating
>         nillable="true"
>         > >>>to minOccurs="0" (for interop with .net)?
>         > >>>
>         > >>>thanx in advance, 
>         > >>>martin
>         > >>>
>         > >>
>         > >>
>         > >>
>         >
>         >
>         >
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