RE: msSOAPclient to apacheSOAPserver: StringDeserializer could not be resolved as a serializer

["Matthew J. Duftler" <du...@watson.ibm.com>]

Hi Innes,

Remove the javaType="java.lang.String" and
java2XMLClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.StringDeserializer"
attributes from your <map> element. Only the values relevant to
deserialization need to be specified. See the "Interoperability" section in
the User's Guide for a detailed description of how to do what you describe:
http://xml.apache.org/soap/docs

Thanks,
-Matt
  -----Original Message-----
  From: innes.mackenzie@tadpole.com [mailto:innes.mackenzie@tadpole.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:28 AM
  To: soap-user@xml.apache.org
  Subject: msSOAPclient to apacheSOAPserver: StringDeserializer could not be
resolved as a serializer


  Hi there,
  using: xerces 1.4.0, apache-soap 2.2rc3, MSSOAP 2.0 release.

  I have managed to get various SOAP sample programs working, and am trying
to call the addressbook2 services from Visual Basic.

  The WSDL file supplied with the example needed to be changed to get the
WSDL file accepted by MSSOAP: one of the operations (addUser) had no
'output' message and this was making MSSOAP reject the WSDL file.

  Anyway, after fixing this, I found that the server couldnt deal with the
SOAP call from VB because one of the string parameters had no mapping
installed for the service. After adding this, mapping to the descriptor,
however, I got a different error. The same error now occurred when
attempting to call the service from either java or VB:

  "Deployment error in SOAP service 'urn:AddressFetcher2':
  class name 'org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.StringDeserializer'
  could not be resolved as a serializer:
  org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.StringDeserializer"


  Has anyone seen this problem before? The SOAP server seems to be unable to
find org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.StringDeserializer even though I'd
imagine this was easily accessible from inside the apache soap code! Perhaps
this is a misleading error message.


  Incidentally, here is the mapping I added to the deployment descriptor for
the addressbook2 sample.

  <isd:map encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  xmlns:x="" qname="x:name"
  javaType="java.lang.String"
  java2XMLClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.StringDeserializer"
  xml2JavaClassName="org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.StringDeserializer"/>


  I got the IBM 'NasdaqQuotes' sample working earlier on, so maybe I'll need
to use that as a starting point for investigations...

  thanks in advance for any help,
  Innes