[jira] Updated: (AXIS-1712) Adding empty elements to soap message: make a configurable option

["Ulf Licht (JIRA)" <ax...@ws.apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-1712?page=all ]

Ulf Licht updated AXIS-1712:
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    Attachment: getSalesOrderList.wsdl
                getSalesOrderList.SOAPRequest.xml

This SOAP request was generated by AXIS 1.3 using the also attached WSDL. All optional elements of the "__getSalesOrderListInput" complex type, for which null was provided in the generated Java method, AXIS generates the elements with xsi:nil="true".

Since the three possible XML states for an element (value, nil or omitted) can not be matched with the two possible states of a Java method parameter (value or nil) it should be a configurable option which XML state to choose for a Java method parameter with null value.

> Adding empty elements to soap message: make a configurable option
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: AXIS-1712
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-1712
>      Project: Apache Axis
>         Type: New Feature
>   Components: Basic Architecture
>     Versions: 1.2RC2
>     Reporter: Andrey Karachoun
>  Attachments: getSalesOrderList.SOAPRequest.xml, getSalesOrderList.wsdl
>
> Currently Axis serialize empty elements to SOAP message with attribute xsi:nil="true", for example:
> ...
> <arg1 xsi:type="xsd:int" xsi:nil="true"/>
> ...
> But sometimes it is necessary not to include such elements in the message because server may fail to parse them, resulting in NumberFormatException throw.
> Both options are already implemented in Axis, but Axis is hardcoded to use first option:. Here is this hardcode:
> org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext
> 134:    /**
> 135:     * Send an element with an xsi:nil="true" attribute for null
> 136:     * variables (if Boolean.TRUE), or nothing (if Boolean.FALSE).
> 137:     */
> 138:    private Boolean sendNull = Boolean.TRUE;
> org.apache.axis.message.RPCParam
> 177:        context.serialize(getQName(),  // element qname
> 178:                          null,   // no extra attrs
> 179:                          value,  // value
> 180:                          xmlType, // java/xml type
> 181:                          Boolean.TRUE, wantXSIType);
> I suggest making this option configurable. This will give greater flexibility to developers because the only existing workaround is to patch Axis library.

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