Trouble with xsd:any and web services

Question

I am trying to generate client code from a WSDL for a getter and setter for a chunk of XML.
The getter:<s:element name="GetData">
  <s:complexType>
    <s:sequence>
      <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="id" type="s:string"/>
    </s:sequence>
  </s:complexType>
</s:element>
<s:element name="GetDataResponse">
  <s:complexType>
    <s:sequence>
      <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="GetDataResult">
        <s:complexType>
          <s:sequence>
            <s:any/>
          </s:sequence>
        </s:complexType>
      </s:element>
    </s:sequence>
  </s:complexType>
</s:element>The setter:<s:element name="SetData">
  <s:complexType>
    <s:sequence>
      <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="id" type="s:string"/>
      <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="data">
        <s:complexType>
          <s:sequence>
            <s:any/>
          </s:sequence>
        </s:complexType>
      </s:element>
    </s:sequence>
  </s:complexType>
</s:element>
<s:element name="SetDataResponse">
  <s:complexType/>
</s:element>When we use the <autotype> and <clientgen> ant tasks to generate our web service client code from the WSDL, we're getting the following warnings:
[autotype] Autotyping for wsdl http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/xxx/xxx.asmx?WSDL
[autotype] WARNING: Unable to fully map ['http://xxx.xxx/xxx/xxx/2005/11/30']:GetDataResultAnonType using javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement
[autotype] WARNING: Unable to fully map ['http://xxx.xxx/xxx/xxx/2005/11/30']:dataAnonType using javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement
[autotype] WARNING: Unable to fully map ['http://xxx.xxx/xxx/xxx/2005/11/30']:SetData using javax.xml.soap.SOAPElement
[autotype] WARNING: Unable to fully map ['http://xxx.xxx/xxx/xxx/2005/11/30']:GetDataResponse using javax.xml.soap.SOAPElementOur client code for the getData() call looks mostly correct. There's a GetData object created with an "id" field. Typically, I've seen that when the web service method calls are generated, it gives me two ways to call:
- one that takes a bean (in this case, a GetData object)
- one that takes the actual fields (in this case, just a String)
Only the method that takes the bean is getting generated, but that's not a big deal.
The client code for the setData() call, however, is all screwed up. There is no SetData bean object, and the only method call that gets generated takes just a SOAPElement, the "id" field is left completely out. Without any way to specify the id of the data I'm setting, the setData() method call is worthless.
My first suspicion was that the Ant tasks did not know how to handle the <any> tag. But we're getting exactly what we want, a SOAPElement object returned in the getter and a SOAPElement to set in the setter. The problem is that it's leaving out the "id" string in the setter. I guess I'm having a hard time seeing why it's almost working.
Anyone have any ideas? I almost feel like this could be a bug. Sorry for the long post.
Tobin

Answer 1

Hi!
Did you ever solve this? I get similar warnings for our wsdl, and can't figure out if they are the kind I can ignore, or if they indicate that my code will go down the drain :).
/JMK