xsd:any: content of _any not present in SOAP message returne

[bgrieder]

Hi,

Coud you please help me return the content of an xsd:any structure to a webservice client. I have no problem sending data using a similar structure but cannot get anything outbound. My JBoss server is a 4.0.2.

I am using document/literal with types that look like this

 <xs:element name="elementsIn">
 <xs:complexType>
 <xs:sequence>
 <xs:any maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
 </xs:sequence>
 </xs:complexType>
 </xs:element>

 <xs:element name="elementsOut">
 <xs:complexType>
 <xs:sequence>
 <xs:any maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
 </xs:sequence>
 </xs:complexType>
 </xs:element>

The operation "execute" takes elemntsIn and returns elementsOut.

As expected jwsp generates two classes ElementsIn and ElementsOut that both have a methods of signature:

public javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement[] get_any();
public void set_any(javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement[] _any);

The execute operation looks like this

public ElementsOut execute(ElementsIn elementsIn) throws RemoteException {

 //do various things to get a DOM Document

 MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
 SOAPMessage message = messageFactory.createMessage();
 SOAPEnvelope envelope = message.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();

 SOAPElement[] ret = new SOAPElement[1];
 ret[0] = envelope.getBody().addDocument(DOMDocument);

 ElementsOut out = new ElementsOut();
 out.set_any(ret);
 return out;
}

No exception is thrown and I have verified that "ret" contains data but the SOAP envelope is empty:

Message
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <soapenv:Body>
 <ns1:elementsOut xmlns:ns1="umy-namespace"/>
 </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

ElementsOut does not seemed to be serialized correctly.
Any Idea?

Thanks.

Bruno

[thomas.diesler]

This has been assigned to

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWS-248

[grp_eee]

Hi Thomas,

I face the same issue with JBoss 4.0.3 too.

Is the fix for this not available in JBoss 4.0.3 ? Is there any work around for this in JBoss 4.0.3.

Another issue which I came across is (request to) xsd:any works only if it is mapped to SOAPElement[] array even if we want to use a single element (maxOccurs=1) . Else it gives an IllegalArgumentException.
Any idea?

Any pointers on these would be really helpful.

Thanks,
Ram

[omatzura]

Hi!

maybe you could use the -f:nodatabinding option of wscompile which will create a method-signature taking/returning a singe SOAPElement for the entire request/response.. !?

regards!

/Ole

[grp_eee]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

Actually when i run wscompile against xsd:any element it correctly creates SOAPElement or SOAPElement[] depending on the maxOccurs value.

I think the problem is not with this.According to what I found, JBoss JAX-RPC internally tries to deserialize any xsd:element into an array of SOAPElements[] and tries to invoke your set_any(SOAPElement e)
of the request object; which would raise an exception.

So this mandates us to use array of SOAPElement always.

Anyways, I am more concerned with the other issue ( same as explained in the first message) - 'could not return content of xsd:any to webservice client ' which i have come across in JBoss 4.0.3.

Any idea/information on this?

Thanks,
-Ram

[jason.greene]

The fix for http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWS-248, will be included in 4.0.4.