Bug in wsdl/stub gen for String[] return?

[Anand Natrajan <an...@cs.virginia.edu>]

Hello,

One of the operations in my web service has a Java signature like this:
	public String[] getParameters(String dsName) throws RemoteException;

Using Axis 1.2beta (June 14th build), I run java2wsdl to get an rpc/enc WSDL
(call it re.wsdl) and again to get a doc/lit WSDL (call it dl.wsdl). Next, I
run wsdl2java on each of these WSDLs to generate separate sets of stub
clients.

What I notice is that the signature of the above method in the stubs is
different. In the stub generated from re.wsdl, the signature looks like:
  public java.lang.String[]
    getParameters(java.lang.String dsName) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
but in the stub generate from dl.wsdl, the signature looks like:
  public java.lang.String
    getParameters(java.lang.String dsName) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;

The stub signature from dl.wsdl seems wrong to me, so I looked at the WSDL
fragments themselves. Here's a fragment from re.wsdl:
  <wsdl:message name="getParametersRequest">
    <wsdl:part name="dsName" type="xsd:string"/>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message name="getParametersResponse">
    <wsdl:part name="getParametersReturn" type="impl:ArrayOf_xsd_string"/>
  </wsdl:message>
and here's the corresponding fragment from dl.wsdl:
  <element name="getParametersReturn" type="xsd:string"/>
  ...
  <wsdl:message name="getParametersRequest">
    <wsdl:part element="impl:dsName" name="dsName"/>
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message name="getParametersResponse">
    <wsdl:part element="impl:getParametersReturn" name="getParametersReturn"/>
  </wsdl:message>
Notice that the WSDL fragment for dl.wsdl sets a type of xsd:string for the
return type. Needless to say, clients I am targetting to these generated
stubs fail to compile for the doc/lit case.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong? If it is, has it been fixed in
the last 3 weeks? Shall I enter a bug report? If it isn't a bug, can someone
enlighten me as to what I am doing wrong?

As a small bit information, I have other operations that return arrays of
custom types - those seem to work okay. Here's an example:
re.wsdl:
  public com.abc.api.common.Permission[]
    permissions(java.lang.String path) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
dl.wsdl:
  public com.abc.ws.stubs.ArrayOf_tns1_DataCatalogPermission
    permissions(java.lang.String path) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
Although not identical, they're close enough that I can work with them.

Anand Natrajan