WSIF and complex types

Hi Luca,

You said that you build your input according to the WSDL
descriptor...but how you do this?

In XML with DOM api (or SAX) ?

I'm just trying the strikeiron SDK (trial version) which is very easy to
use! If someone used it and had some opinions to share...

Thanks a lot for you answer...

Delphine.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Luca Baldi <mailto:[email protected]> 

To: [email protected] 

Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:11 PM 

Subject: RE: WSIF and complex type 

Hi. I tried to use WSIF with complex types a few weeks ago, and decided
that if you want to consume web services dynamically with complex types
you?re better off starting from scratch. What I mean is that you can use
Apache Axis ( or SOAP ) library to create your SOAPMessage and populate
it with whatever you want. 

The steps that I take are the following; 

*         Read in the WSDL descriptor 

*         Get the SOAP binding and list all the operations associated
with the appropriate PortType 

*         Pick an operation 

*         Build input according to the WSDL descriptor 

*         Create the request SOAPMessage and invoke the web service 

*         Process the response SOAPMessage that comes back ( if you?re
lucky, with no errors !! :-) ). What to expect is again based on the
WSDL file 

 

It?s quite a complex process if you want to be able to handle any web
service. I reckon the best approach would be to create the Body of the
SOAPMessage as xml, and just add it to the SOAPBodyElement. Having said
that, I haven?t done that for a variety of reasons ( which I am
regretting a wee bit now ). 

Basically if you follow your solution 1, you should be able to tackle
this.