Getting from an xml file to an XMLBean argument to web service

Question

I'm a newbie here, so I apologize for the lack of understanding, but the docs are
not helping me at all here.
I'm trying to write a simple SOAP client to call into a JWS (document style) generated
in Workshop and deployed in 8.1 SP2. The Web Service was in turn generated from
a Java Control with one method. That method took as an argument an XMLBean type.
After deploying my EAR, I downloaded the proxy jar and am trying to use that
to develop a client outside workshop to call into my web service.
ServiceTest_Impl proxy = new ServiceTest_Impl("<pathtoWSDL>");
ServiceTestSoap soap = proxy.getServiceTestSoap();
On that soap variable, I have a method:
validateLoanApp(LOANAPPLICATION arg)
LOANAPPLICATION exists as a class at com.foo.BAR.LOANAPPLICATION, and there's
a LOANAPPLICATIONCodec in the same package, and a com.foo.BAR.holders.LOANAPPLICATIONHolder
Now I have a file on disk that is an XML document. I'd like to read that file,
convert it to a LOANAPPLICATIOAN, and pass it to my method. I cannot for the
life of me figure out how to do this. The LOANAPPLICAITON class just has getters
and setters, and I don't want to have to go through the document and hand parse
it; there must be a way to do it automatically.
I see the deserialize method, but that is expecting a DeserializationContext,
which doesn't seem to have a constructor I can find. Any help here would be appreciated!
Thanks.

Answer 1

Michael, thanks for the quick reply. And crud. Unfortunately, this document is
huge and immensely complicated, so I was hoping to avoid using the getters and
setters for it by populating the Javabeans in some automatic way. I guess I'll
have to just send the doc as a String, and parse it in the client using the Factory.
Thanks!
"Michael Wooten" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi Brian,
No, you won't have to "hand-parse" it, but something must :-)
Those Codec classes are JavaBeans, not XMLBeans, so you won't find a
method like
parse(String xml), on them. If this arg type is really an XMLBean type,
you should
have a .jar file in the APP-INF/lib director (under the directory for
your Workshop
app), which has it (a LOANAPPLICATIONDocument class) in it. You should
be able
to use:
LOANAPPLICATIONDocument mydoc = LOANAPPLICATIONDocument.Factory.parse(new
File("filename.xml"));
to parse (and validate) the file for you. Then you can just use the "getters"
on the mydoc object, with the "setters" on the LOANAPPLICATION class
from the
proxy .jar, to get the results you want.
For the record, it has been brought to the attention of the BEA engineers
(by
myself, and others), that there is a real desire to just use XMLBeans
with the
XXX_Impl and XXXSoap classes in the client proxy .jar, and they are working
on
this for a future release :-)
Regards,
Mike Wooten
"Brian Sensale" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm a newbie here, so I apologize for the lack of understanding, but
the docs are
not helping me at all here.
I'm trying to write a simple SOAP client to call into a JWS (document
style) generated
in Workshop and deployed in 8.1 SP2. The Web Service was in turn generated
from
a Java Control with one method. That method took as an argument anXMLBean
type.
After deploying my EAR, I downloaded the proxy jar and am trying to
use that
to develop a client outside workshop to call into my web service.
ServiceTest_Impl proxy = new ServiceTest_Impl("<pathtoWSDL>");
ServiceTestSoap soap = proxy.getServiceTestSoap();
On that soap variable, I have a method:
validateLoanApp(LOANAPPLICATION arg)
LOANAPPLICATION exists as a class at com.foo.BAR.LOANAPPLICATION, and
there's
a LOANAPPLICATIONCodec in the same package, and a com.foo.BAR.holders.LOANAPPLICATIONHolder
Now I have a file on disk that is an XML document. I'd like to read
that file,
convert it to a LOANAPPLICATIOAN, and pass it to my method. I cannot
for the
life of me figure out how to do this. The LOANAPPLICAITON class just
has getters
and setters, and I don't want to have to go through the document and
hand parse
it; there must be a way to do it automatically.
I see the deserialize method, but that is expecting a DeserializationContext,
which doesn't seem to have a constructor I can find. Any help herewould
be appreciated!
Thanks.