How to build complex object to be sent to a RESTful web service?

Question

Hi,
I'm working with RESTful web services on J2EE 1.6.
I create the database, generate the entities and generate the web services.
I must implement Javascript clients and I don't want to use any open source for that.
I have a simple example that works just fine. For the database :
CREATE TABLE Shopper(
shopperId MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstName VARCHAR(40),
lastName VARCHAR(40),
phone VARCHAR(40),
email VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
receiveEmailNotification ENUM('Y', 'N'),
index(email)
I create this xml information with javascript :
*<shopper>*
*<email>c</email>*
*<firstName>c</firstName>*
*<lastName>c</lastName>*
*<phone>c</phone>*
*<receiveEmailNotification>Y</receiveEmailNotification>*
*</shopper>*
and it is saved in the database. I have a more complex application with relationships between entites. For this database :
CREATE TABLE Shopper(
shopperId MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstName VARCHAR(40),
lastName VARCHAR(40),
phone VARCHAR(40),
email VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
receiveEmailNotification ENUM('Y', 'N'),
index(email)
CREATE TABLE Address(
addressId MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
street VARCHAR(60),
streetNo VARCHAR(20),
postalCode VARCHAR(30),
city VARCHAR(40),
country VARCHAR(40),
otherInfo TEXT,
shopperId MEDIUMINT NOT NULL,
foreign key (shopperId) REFERENCES  shopper(shopperId) ON DELETE CASCADE,
index(shopperId)
I was expecting that xml information sent from the browser should be:
*<address>*
*<city>c</city>*
*<country>c</country>*
*<otherInfo>c</otherInfo>*
*<postalCode>c</postalCode>*
*<street>c</street>*
*<streetNo>c</streetNo>*
*<shopper>*
*<email>c</email>*
*<firstName>c</firstName>*
*<lastName>c</lastName>*
*<phone>c</phone>*
*<receiveEmailNotification>Y</receiveEmailNotification>*
*</shopper>*
*</address>*
but I keep on getting errors.
I want to send one XML structure that will be stored in two tables according to the foreign key relation.
Does the RESTful web services code generated by Netbeans or Eclipse support this?
Is my XML structure not built correctly?

Answer 1

Kevin,
My object base class is Abstract and class I am using in Flex 3 is class inheriting abstract class. But when calling webservice Flex creating soap message of base class and I am getting error in .Net web services that "Can not create instance of Abstract class".
Below is the soap message difference calling same WCF method from .Net and Flex. For example Constraint is the base class and JobConstraint is the class which inherit Constraint class. But flex send message forming only Constraint while .Net soap is specifying i:type="JobConstraint".
Part of soap message Calling from .Net 
< 
Constraints>< 
Constraint i:type="JobConstraint"><Position 
>true</Position>< 
Rank>2</Rank>< 
Requirement>true</Requirement></ 
Constraint></ 
Constraints> 
Part of Soap message calling from Flex 3
<ns0:Constraints>
<ns0:Constraint>
<ns0:Position>true</ns0:Position>
<ns0:Rank>2</ns0:Rank>
<ns0:Requirement>true</ns0:Requirement>
</ns0:Constraint>
</ns0:Constraints>