Smooks -> WS, List vs Array

[mheidt]

Hello,

I have the problem with Smooks and passing objects to a WS (WebService) client.

I'm talking about the Smooks translation of quickstarts/transform_smooks.

The problem is regarding List elements of the serializable Pojo objects.
As I read it, Smooks needs List.

But when I generate a WS Client from the WSDL, the Lists will be translated to Arrays.

Hence I need to "cast" the list-based pojos to array-based ones after the smooks translation and before passing to the WS.

I don't like it :)

Is there anything I don't know? A lot i think :)
I'm missing a parameter in smooks which would deal with "array based lists".

Or do I have to create Pojo objects which implements both interfaces...a list and an array based one?
Not nice either because I don't want to mess with generated classes...

Just using the list based pojos doesn't work...the parameters will be created, but empty, when reaching the WS-Server..of course because the de-/serialization is missing.

[tfennelly]

You're right Smooks v0.9 only supports Lists. Array support is in v1.0, but the ESB is not there yet. Sorry about that. Can't help with this until end of next week.

[mheidt]

thanks tfennelly for the quick reply.

At least there is hope, so that I will go for the editing of the generated classes.

Is this all the Smooks documentation that exists?
http://milyn.codehaus.org/Smooks+User+Guide