Returning a user defined object Web Service

[Yemi_Bedu]

Hello,

What will be calling this service? The type returned is java.lang.Object. The caller should hopefully be aware and do a simple cast to Gift on there side. They can do an instanceof check if needed. Then everything will be available. Good day.

Yemi Bedu

[Guest]

Yes that is correct, but the problem is what if I have some variables defined in the Gift object, they need to be shown in the WSDL when it is generated. It is not serializing the Gift object. Is there anyway I can specify what kind of object it should return.
Thanks

[Yemi_Bedu]

Hello,

I know that something like this has been discussed here already. You may have luck searching for some past articles. A quick google hunt turned up this:
Using Java to Handle Custom WSDL Data Types
It may have something to lean towards helping you. There is also stuff about wsdl2java and java2wsdl that is ringing in my head as something that might be important. I don’t use them directly, but have read posts regarding them. Maybe you can search on that as well or someone else might be wise to relations I’m trying to fit together to help you.
Good day.

Yemi Bedu

[wMusers.Com1 (wMusers.Com)]

Sarvesh,

The webMethods IS WSDL generator uses the input and output signature of the services to generate the types section of the WSDL for soap-rpc style and uses the document types that you specify for soap-message style.

In neither case, does it understand how to serialize a custom object such that a consumer of the web service could regenerate the object to make the call successfully.

The best way to handle this is to create a document type representation of your Gift object and have your either your java service or a wrapper around that service populate this. If you generate your WSDL from a service that accepts a Gift document type, your WSDL should work.

HTH,

Mark

PS: Good article, Yemi. Thanks.