Re: Multidimensionality in SOAPLite

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:17:10 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi Eric,
>        Thanks! Your recommendation worked, albeit I had to change a piece
>of it. Here is what the XML output looks like (from the client) once I
>passed references to the arrays instead:
>It seems that the name SOAP-ENC:Array is causing
>java.lang.ArrayStoreException on the server side (an Axis implementation
>there)...so I changed the message manually (inside TCP Monitor, which lets
>you change the raw message and test-send again) to:
>
>POST /axis/services/ HTTP/1.1 TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3 Connection: TE, close
>Accept: text/xml Accept: multipart/* Host: localhost User-Agent:
>SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.55 Content-Length: 1291
>Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 SOAPAction: "myService#getPersonData"
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>   <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
>xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
>SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
>      <SOAP-ENV:Body>
>         <namesp1:getPersonData xmlns:namesp1="myService">
>            <arg0 xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array"
>SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[3]">
>               <item xsi:type="xsd:string">First Name</item>
>               <item xsi:type="xsd:string">Middle Name</item>
>               <item xsi:type="xsd:string">Last Name</item>
>            </arg0>
>            <arg1 xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array"
>SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[1]">
>               <item xsi:type="xsd:string"/>
>            </arg1>
>            <arg2 xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array"
>SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[1]">
>               <item xsi:type="xsd:string">myApplication</item>
>            </arg2>
>         </namesp1:getPersonData>
>      </SOAP-ENV:Body>
>   </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
>
>So instead of <SOAP-ENC:Array... we have <arg0...> and so on. And this
>worked!
>
>One more question though, how do I make SOAPLite to generate arg0, etc. for
>that specific sub-element instead of SOAP-ENC:Array?

I'm not 100% certain, but you might try changing the arguments from
plain references like 

\@arrayname 

to 

SOAP::Data->name(arg0 => \@arrayname)

instead.  I haven't tried this, but it seems likely to work.

-- 
Eric Amick
Columbia, MD