Web service from java WSDL

[Emanuele Parati]

I created a Web Service from a WSDL that come from Java (apache soap).
It contains the definition of Vector as complex type:

<schema targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
<complexType name="Vector">
<sequence>
<element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="item"
type="xsd:anyType"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</schema>

..Net generate the following (wrong) class:

<System.Xml.Serialization.SoapTypeAttribute("Vecto r",
"http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap")> _
Public Class Vector
Public item() As Object
End Class

I changed it in:

<System.Xml.Serialization.SoapTypeAttribute("Vecto r",
"http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap")> _
Public Class Vector
Inherits ArrayList
End Class

There is a method XX with a parameter in0 of type Vector.
The problem is: The Soap request is:

<in0 xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xsi:type="ns2:Vector">
....
</in0>
My Web Service wants:

<soapenc:Array id="id2" soapenc:arrayType="type[2]">
....
</soapenc:Array>

I can't change the request message!!
Anyone knows a solution??

Thanks in advance,

Emanuele

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

> I can't change the request message!!

Anyone knows a solution??

yes!
Don't use Apache SOAP. It isn't WS-I compliant and it has poor
interoperability.
Also, don't send platform specific datatypes (such as Java Vector) across a
webservice interface.

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"Emanuele Parati" <ep*****@libero.it> wrote in message
news:3f**************************@posting.google.c om...I created a Web Service from a WSDL that come from Java (apache soap).
It contains the definition of Vector as complex type:

<schema targetNamespace="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
<complexType name="Vector">
<sequence>
<element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="item"
type="xsd:anyType"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</schema>

.Net generate the following (wrong) class:

<System.Xml.Serialization.SoapTypeAttribute("Vecto r",
"http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap")> _
Public Class Vector
Public item() As Object
End Class

This seems to be correct from my point of view! the schema specifically
says xsd:anyType, which .NET (correctly) translates to an array of Object.
This is the danger in including types such as Java Vector in an interface -
it is not easily translatable into and out of XML Schema without some loss
of information. Instead, start with XSD Schema, and generate the interface
from it. Generate the server skeleton from the WSDL and XSD.

-Dino