How to return array of beans

[Rosén Håkan <ha...@kvadrat.se>]

Hi 
I try to deploy a service but i'm stuck halfways.
I have written a small service that takes a javabean (Album) as input and
returns an array of the same bean (Album[]) as output, 
I can call my service with a bean-parameter but when I return the array I
get a ClassCastException.
I think my problem is that i have to descibe the returning Array as well,
but i don't know how

the method in my service looks like :
    public Album[] getAlbums( Album anAlbum ) {


wsdd-file:
<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java"
xmlns:album="http://www.soapinterop.org/Album">
    <service name="Album" provider="java:RPC">
        <namespace>http://www.soapinterop.org/Album</namespace>
        <parameter name="className" value="com.nice.service.AlbumService"/>
        <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="getAlbums"/>
    </service>
    <beanMapping qname="album:Album"
languageSpecificType="java:company.beans.Album"/>
</deployment>

Extact from client-code:
Album[] result = new Album[0];
call.removeAllParameters();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(endpointURL);

call.setUseSOAPAction(true);
call.setSOAPActionURI("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album");
QName albumqn = new QName("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album",
                               "Album");
Class cls = Album.class;
call.registerTypeMapping(cls, 
                         albumqn, 
                         BeanSerializerFactory.class,
                         BeanDeserializerFactory.class);
call.setOperationName( new QName("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album",
"getAlbums" ));

QName albumRetqn = new
QName("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album","ArrayOfAlbum");
call.registerTypeMapping(result.getClass(), albumRetqn,
ArraySerializerFactory.class, ArrayDeserializerFactory.class);
call.addParameter( "anAlbum", albumqn, ParameterMode.IN );
call.setReturnType(albumRetqn);
//invoking the call return in a ClassCastException
Object ret = call.invoke(new Object[] { anAlbum });

regards 
/Håkan

Re: How to return array of beans

[Tony Blair <hr...@yahoo.com>]

Hi there,
 
I have a similar sample code. It takes a bean as an input but it returns a Collection of beans as oppose to an Array of beans. Is it possible for you to use Collection?
 
Cheers,
Tony.

Ros�n_H�kan <ha...@kvadrat.se> wrote:
Hi 
I try to deploy a service but i'm stuck halfways.
I have written a small service that takes a javabean (Album) as input and
returns an array of the same bean (Album[]) as output, 
I can call my service with a bean-parameter but when I return the array I
get a ClassCastException.
I think my problem is that i have to descibe the returning Array as well,
but i don't know how

the method in my service looks like :
public Album[] getAlbums( Album anAlbum ) {


wsdd-file:
xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java"
xmlns:album="http://www.soapinterop.org/Album">

http://www.soapinterop.org/Album





languageSpecificType="java:company.beans.Album"/>


Extact from client-code:
Album[] result = new Album[0];
call.removeAllParameters();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(endpointURL);

call.setUseSOAPAction(true);
call.setSOAPActionURI("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album");
QName albumqn = new QName("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album",
"Album");
Class cls = Album.class;
call.registerTypeMapping(cls, 
albumqn, 
BeanSerializerFactory.class,
BeanDeserializerFactory.class);
call.setOperationName( new QName("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album",
"getAlbums" ));

QName albumRetqn = new
QName("http://www.soapinterop.org/Album","ArrayOfAlbum");
call.registerTypeMapping(result.getClass(), albumRetqn,
ArraySerializerFactory.class, ArrayDeserializerFactory.class);
call.addParameter( "anAlbum", albumqn, ParameterMode.IN );
call.setReturnType(albumRetqn);
//invoking the call return in a ClassCastException
Object ret = call.invoke(new Object[] { anAlbum });

regards 
/H�kan

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