Deprecated - Mapping arrays to complex schema types

The following example is taken from JBWS-423

XMLSchema has no special type identifier for arrays, instead it uses maxOccurs with a value greater than 1.

  <types>
    <schema targetNamespace="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types/arrays/org/jboss/test/webservice/jbws423" ...>
      <import namespace="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types"></import>
      <complexType name="ValueObjArray">
        <sequence>
          <element name="value" type="ns2:ValueObj" nillable="true" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"></element>
        </sequence>
      </complexType>
    </schema>
    <schema targetNamespace="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types" ...>
      <import namespace="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types/arrays/org/jboss/test/webservice/jbws423"></import>
      <complexType name="ValueObj">
        <sequence>
          <element name="s1" type="string" nillable="true"></element>
          <element name="s2" type="string" nillable="true"></element>
        </sequence>
      </complexType>
    </schema>
  </types>

Here is an example of an SEI using an array as return value.

   public interface DemoEndpoint extends Remote
   {
      public ValueObj[] getArray() throws RemoteException;

      public ValueObj[] getEmptyArray() throws RemoteException;

      public ValueObj[] getNullArray() throws RemoteException;
   }

Unfortunately, wscompile does not generate the required type mapping in jaxrpc-mapping.xml. This needs to be added manually like this.

  <!-- Add these type mappings -->
  <java-xml-type-mapping>
    <java-type>org.jboss.test.webservice.jbws423._arrays.org.jboss.test.webservice.jbws423.ValueObjArray</java-type>
    <root-type-qname xmlns:typeNS="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types/arrays/org/jboss/test/webservice/jbws423">typeNS:ValueObjArray</root-type-qname>
    <qname-scope>complexType</qname-scope>
  </java-xml-type-mapping>
  <java-xml-type-mapping>
    <java-type>org.jboss.test.webservice.jbws423.ValueObj</java-type>
    <root-type-qname xmlns:typeNS="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types">typeNS:ValueObj</root-type-qname>
    <qname-scope>complexType</qname-scope>
  </java-xml-type-mapping>

The wrapper bean is also generated by wscompile with the -keep option and must be included in your deployment.

Note, that org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.ArraySerializer is for the use of soap style array encoding (rpc/encoded) and should not be used with literal encoding.

Easier Solution

I(Ormek) solved this in a different way. Adding simply an array description as the type for the element did work, without any wrapper classes.

<java-xml-type-mapping>
    <java-type>org.jboss.test.webservice.jbws423.ValueObj[]</java-type>
    <root-type-qname xmlns:impl="http://org.jboss.test.webservice/jbws423/types">impl:ValueObjArray</root-type-qname>
    <qname-scope>element</qname-scope>
</java-xml-type-mapping>