Re: Unexpected values returned from Mozilla SOAP call

This was related to the fact that axis is configured by default with
sendMultiRefs = true.


"Gardner  Lloyd Bickford III" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:<[email protected]>...
> I have been working with the low level SOAP API in
> mozilla/firefox/netscape and I've run into a road block and I am
> unsure how to continue or even debug further.
> 
> Basically the web service is a javabean running inside of jboss 2.3.7
> and axis deals with generating and parsing the SOAP packets. On the
> client side I instantiate synchronous SOAPCalls, encode the
> parameters, and then invoke the call. This works great for calls that
> return simple types such as integers, strings or even arrays of
> strings. Unexpected results are returned from any method that returns
> complex objects. One example of this is a method that returns an array
> of objects. After going through SOAP and getting a value from
> SOAPCall.getParameters() all I have is an appropriately size array
> with blank strings at every offset.
> 
> Using ethereal I was able to verify that the SOAP packets are actually
> being returned by the server but for some reason the SOAP API doesn't
> seem to decode them properly.
> 
> I have read about using schemas to aid in the encoding/decoding
> process as well as custom encoders/decoders
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.xml/browse_thread/thread/a5a4bb65ba478625/d4849f79efcbf76c?q=decoding&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fnetscape.public.mozilla.xml%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dnetscape.public.mozilla.xml%26q%3Ddecoding%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#d4849f79efcbf76c
> 
> I am not sure if this may be related to axis producing incompatible
> SOAP packets (they work with PHP SOAP) or if I just need to help the
> SOAP decoder by giving it more information.
> 
> Gardner