Trying (and failing) to read XML multi-dimensional data array

Question

i.e.
<mpp:Vehicle>
  <mpp:Vehicle_Rgtrn_Ref>?</mpp:Vehicle_Rgtrn_Ref>
  <mpp:Vehicle_Model_Code>?</mpp:Vehicle_Model_Code>
  <mpp:DrivingRestrictionCode>?</mpp:DrivingRestrictionCode>
  <mpp:Object_Mnfct_Year>?</mpp:Object_Mnfct_Year>
  <mpp:Building_Number_const>1</mpp:Building_Number_const>
  <mpp:Building_Name>The Slums</mpp:Building_Name>
  <mpp:Sub_Building_Name>Flat 1</mpp:Sub_Building_Name>
  <mpp:Postcode_Area_Ref>???? ???</mpp:Postcode_Area_Ref>
  <mpp:Covers>
    <mpp:Cover>?</mpp:Cover>
    <mpp:Cover>?</mpp:Cover>
    <mpp:Cover>?</mpp:Cover>
  </mpp:Covers>
</mpp:Vehicle>
<mpp:Vehicle>........
I'm currently trying to create a web service to read a SOAP message containing such XML. When reading the message, EDQ converts the singleton nodes in each Vehicle node group to a stringarray but only provides the last Cover node in each Vehicle in a stringarray. I'm not in control of the XML structure so trying to get the supplier to concatenate each vehicles covers into a delimited list within a single node may be a battle.
Anybody else ever encountered this? Is it possible or am I flogging a dead horse trying to achieve this.
Thanks in advance.
Jon

Answer 1

Hi Richard,
Thank you for your suggestion to my colleague Jon regarding -multi in option. As he said, w
hat we currently get when we have a SOAP message containing <Covers><Cover>A</Cover><Cover>B</Cover><Cover>C</Cover></Covers> is an EDQ stringarray containing the value {C}.
I've tried your suggestion
and ran the wsdlizer with the -multi in option but the wsdlizer fails with the following error:
H:\Workspaces\svn\edqTrunk\EDQ\WebServices\WSDL>java -jar wsdlizer.jar -o lv-mpp-query-request-ws.jar -multi in MPP_Query_Request_Service.wsdl
INFO: 10-Sep-2013 13:24:07: wsimport succeeded
Problem encountered during annotation processing;
see stacktrace below for more information.
com.datanomic.director.webservices.apt.ScannerException: multi-record request element must contain single nested list
com.datanomic.director.webservices.apt.Scanner$Processor$Servicer.makeDef(Scanner.java:747)
etc.
SEVERE: 10-Sep-2013 13:24:07: APT scan failed
Unfortunately, the error message is not very helpful to me.  Do you know what it is whingeing about?  I've also tried running the wsdlizer on our old wsdl files, i.e. before we introduced the parent tag <Covers> around <Cover>, but this failed with the same result when running with the -multi in option
The wsdl file, with most of the XML tags removed for clarity and brevity, looks like this:
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:schema="http://xxxx/MppService" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tns="http://xxxx/MppService" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" name="LV" targetNamespace="http://xxxx/MppService">
   <wsdl:types>
      <xsd:schema xmlns="http://xxxx/MppService" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" attributeFormDefault="qualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://xxxx/MppService">
         <xsd:element name="request">
            <xsd:complexType>
               <xsd:sequence>
                  <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="CorrelationUID" type="xsd:string"/>
                  <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="RequestorName" type="xsd:string"/>
                  <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="Brands" type="brandType"/>
                  <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="Parties" type="partiesType"/>
                  <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="InsuredObjects" type="insuredObjectsType"/>
               </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
         </xsd:element>
         <xsd:element name="response">
            <xsd:complexType>
               <xsd:sequence>
                  <xsd:element name="CorrelationUID" type="xsd:string"/>
                  <xsd:element name="MPPResponseUID" type="xsd:string"/>
                  <xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="1" name="Brand" type="schema:brandsType"/>
               </xsd:sequence>
            </xsd:complexType>
         </xsd:element>
         <xsd:complexType name="brandsType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element name="BrandCode" type="xsd:string"/>
               <xsd:element name="ResponseMPD">
                  <xsd:complexType>
                     <xsd:sequence>
                        <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="FunctionAvailable" type="xsd:string"/>
                        <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="MessageCode" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </xsd:sequence>
                  </xsd:complexType>
               </xsd:element>
               <xsd:element name="ResponseCI">
                  <xsd:complexType>
                     <xsd:sequence>
                        <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="FunctionAvailable" type="xsd:string"/>
                        <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="MessageCode" type="xsd:string"/>
                     </xsd:sequence>
                  </xsd:complexType>
               </xsd:element>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="brandType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="2" minOccurs="1" name="BrandCode" type="xsd:string"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="partiesType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="1" name="Party" type="schema:partyType"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="partyType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="PartyUID" type="xsd:string"/>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="RoleCode" type="xsd:string"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="insuredObjectsType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="Properties" type="schema:propertiesType"/>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="Vehicles" type="schema:vehiclesType"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="propertiesType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="Property" type="schema:propertyType"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="vehiclesType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="Vehicle" type="schema:vehicleType"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="propertyType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="BuildingNumber" type="xsd:string"/>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="BuildingName" type="xsd:string"/>
               <xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" name="Covers" type="schema:coversType"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="coversType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="Cover" type="xsd:string"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
         <xsd:complexType name="vehicleType">
            <xsd:sequence>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="VehicleRegistrationMark" type="xsd:string"/>
               <xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="ABIBrokernetCode" type="xsd:string"/>
            </xsd:sequence>
         </xsd:complexType>
      </xsd:schema>
   </wsdl:types>
   <wsdl:message name="request">
      <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="schema:request"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="response">
      <wsdl:part name="parameters" element="schema:response"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:portType name="LVEI">
      <wsdl:documentation>Operations</wsdl:documentation>
      <wsdl:operation name="process">
         <wsdl:documentation>Process a query request</wsdl:documentation>
         <wsdl:input message="schema:request"/>
         <wsdl:output message="schema:response"/>
      </wsdl:operation>
   </wsdl:portType>
   <wsdl:binding name="LVBinding" type="tns:LVEI">
      <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
      <wsdl:operation name="process">
         <soap:operation soapAction="http://xxxx/MppService"/>
         <wsdl:input>
            <soap:body use="encoded"/>
         </wsdl:input>
         <wsdl:output>
            <soap:body use="literal"/>
         </wsdl:output>
      </wsdl:operation>
   </wsdl:binding>
   <wsdl:service name="LV-MPPQRS-v01">
      <wsdl:port name="LVEndpoint" binding="tns:LVBinding">
         <soap:address location="https://xxxx/LV-MPPQRS-v01"/>
      </wsdl:port>
   </wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>
A colleague created the wsdl, it's been checked a number of times but no one can find anything dodgy that might account for the wsdlizer error we're getting.  So we're a bit lost now, the data coming in to our EDQ process is incomplete, which makes further development of out EDQ processes somewhat challenging.
Any help would be greatly received.  Also happy to send any more information you may require.
Jules