SOAP::Lite <-> JBoss Interoperability : changing default encoding of HASH refs from SOAP-Structs

On 2003-04-03 Jim Cromie  wrote:

>Ive got a stable and functional SOAP server under development which
>serves a JBOSS java client.
>
>early in the interop tests, we found that SOAP::Lite returns a
>soap-struct object for hashes,
>which caused JBOSS to toss cookies (ie an exception).
>
>Following perldoc, I reblessed all my return hashes with the following code,
>and everything worked after that..
>
>########
>sub mkmap {
>  # in order to accommodate JBoss failure to handle SOAP-Structs
>  # bless each hash in data-structure to a map.
>  my $it = shift;
>
>  if (ref $it eq 'HASH') {
>    bless $it, 'map';
>    foreach my $v (values %$it) {
>      mkmap($v) if ref $v;
>    }
>    return $it;
>  }
>  elsif (ref $it eq 'ARRAY') {
>    foreach my $item (@$it) {
>      mkmap ($item) if ref $item;
>    }
>    return $it;
>  }
>}
>
>
>BUT, THAT WAS THEN.
>
>Now that Ive started tossing exceptions, im getting the same
>interoperabilty problems,
>but without the same easy fix.
>
>
>I partly solved it by subclassing myError with 2 base-classes
>
>package myError;
>our @ISA = qw (Error map);
>
>but it doesnt descend into nested structures to convert HASHs to map's,
>I can prolly do that, but still...
>
>
>Is there a way to cause HASHes to be converted to Maps by default,
>instead of SOAP structs.
>
Jim

You're probably better off posting to the Yahoo SOAP::Lite list,
see this discussion of hashes to Java =>

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soaplite/message/1742

Regards,
Duncan

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