I am currently developing Web Services with RAD and J2EE 1.3, packaging the Web Services in an EAR and deploying this EAR onto WebSphere Application Server v5.1. My client is a J2EE application running on RAD. I am currently having an issue with the Web Service correctly deserializing arrays passed into the operation by a client.The Web Service only seems to deserialize the last array element passed by the client.

I have a complex type with the following definition:
   <complexType name="SomePersonBO">
    <complexContent>
     <extension base="tns2:SomeBaseEntityBO">
      <sequence>
       <element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="aliases" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
       <element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="attributes" nillable="true" type="tns2:SomeAttribute"/>
      </sequence>
     </extension>
    </complexContent>
   </complexType>


There is an operation with the following definition:

      <wsdl:operation name="searchPersons">
         <wsdl:input message="impl:searchPersonsRequest" name="searchPersonsRequest"/>
         <wsdl:output message="impl:searchPersonsResponse" name="searchPersonsResponse"/>
         <wsdl:fault message="impl:SomeException" name="SomeException"/>
      </wsdl:operation>

   <wsdl:message name="searchPersonsRequest">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:searchPersons" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="searchPersonsResponse">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:searchPersonsResponse" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>

   <element name="searchPersons">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element name="orgContainerBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:SomeOrgContainerBO"/>
      <element name="personBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:SomePersonBO"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>
   <element name="searchPersonsResponse">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="searchPersonsReturn" type="tns2:SomePersonBO"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>

This basically involves the Some performing a search with some selection criteria, and then returning an array of SomePersonBO objects to the Some client. When an array is passed from Some -> client, this seems to work fine.

However, I have another operation with the following definition:

      <wsdl:operation name="modifyPerson">
         <wsdl:input message="impl:modifyPersonRequest" name="modifyPersonRequest"/>
         <wsdl:output message="impl:modifyPersonResponse" name="modifyPersonResponse"/>
         <wsdl:fault message="impl:SomeException" name="SomeException"/>
      </wsdl:operation>


   <wsdl:message name="modifyPersonRequest">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:modifyPerson" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="modifyPersonResponse">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:modifyPersonResponse" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>

   <element name="modifyPerson">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element name="orgContainerBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:SomeOrgContainerBO"/>
      <element name="personBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:SomePersonBO"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>
   <element name="modifyPersonResponse">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="modifyPersonReturn" type="tns2:SomeRequestStatus"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>

To modify a person, I need to set an array of attributes. However, when the Some client sets the attributes array in the SomePersonBO parameter to pass into the operation, only the last attribute is serialized by the Web Service. So passing arrays from client -> Some does not work. I have used WebSphere's tcpmon tool to view the soap message on the server and it contains all the attributes passed by the client, which means that the client is correctly deserializing:

<p250:modifyPerson...>
  <p250:orgContainerBO>
    ...
  </p250:orgContainerBO>
  <p250:personBO>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
  </p250:personBO>
</p250:modifyPerson>

Does anyone have any idea why the Web Service does not deserialize the array correctly?

I am currently developing Web Services with RAD and J2EE 1.3, packaging the Web Services in an EAR and deploying this EAR onto WebSphere Application Server v5.1. My client is a J2EE application running on RAD. I am currently having an issue with the Web Service correctly deserializing arrays passed into the operation by a client.The Web Service only seems to deserialize the last array element passed by the client.

I have a complex type with the following definition:
   <complexType name="WSPersonBO">
    <complexContent>
     <extension base="tns2:WSBaseEntityBO">
      <sequence>
       <element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="aliases" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
       <element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="attributes" nillable="true" type="tns2:WSAttribute"/>
      </sequence>
     </extension>
    </complexContent>
   </complexType>


There is an operation with the following definition:

      <wsdl:operation name="searchPersons">
         <wsdl:input message="impl:searchPersonsRequest" name="searchPersonsRequest"/>
         <wsdl:output message="impl:searchPersonsResponse" name="searchPersonsResponse"/>
         <wsdl:fault message="impl:WSException" name="WSException"/>
      </wsdl:operation>

   <wsdl:message name="searchPersonsRequest">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:searchPersons" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="searchPersonsResponse">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:searchPersonsResponse" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>

   <element name="searchPersons">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element name="orgContainerBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:WSOrgContainerBO"/>
      <element name="personBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:WSPersonBO"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>
   <element name="searchPersonsResponse">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="searchPersonsReturn" type="tns2:WSPersonBO"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>

This basically involves the WebService performing a search with some selection criteria, and then returning an array of WSPersonBO objects to the WebService client. When an array is passed from WebService -> client, this seems to work fine.

However, I have another operation with the following definition:

      <wsdl:operation name="modifyPerson">
         <wsdl:input message="impl:modifyPersonRequest" name="modifyPersonRequest"/>
         <wsdl:output message="impl:modifyPersonResponse" name="modifyPersonResponse"/>
         <wsdl:fault message="impl:WSException" name="WSException"/>
      </wsdl:operation>


   <wsdl:message name="modifyPersonRequest">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:modifyPerson" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="modifyPersonResponse">
      <wsdl:part element="impl:modifyPersonResponse" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>

   <element name="modifyPerson">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element name="orgContainerBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:WSOrgContainerBO"/>
      <element name="personBO" nillable="true" type="tns2:WSPersonBO"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>
   <element name="modifyPersonResponse">
    <complexType>
     <sequence>
      <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="modifyPersonReturn" type="tns2:WSRequestStatus"/>
     </sequence>
    </complexType>
   </element>

To modify a person, I need to set an array of attributes. However, when the WebService client sets the attributes array in the WSPersonBO parameter to pass into the operation, only the last attribute is serialized by the Web Service. So passing arrays from client -> WebService does not work. I have used WebSphere's tcpmon tool to view the soap message on the server and it contains all the attributes passed by the client, which means that the client is correctly deserializing:

<p250:modifyPerson...>
  <p250:orgContainerBO>
    ...
  </p250:orgContainerBO>
  <p250:personBO>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
<p941:attributes ...>
...
</p941:attributes ...>
  </p250:personBO>
</p250:modifyPerson>

Does anyone have any idea why the Web Service does not deserialize the array correctly?

Most probably your Java class corresponding to the xml schema type containing the array type does not have the index based getters and setters. For each array element, index based getter and setter have to be added in the corresponding java class (in addition to the getter and setter that uses array). Assuming ur using an array of strings, the following 2 have to be added public String getXXX(int i) public void setXXX(int i, String xxx) Otherwise deserialization will deserialize only one element in the array (the last element of the array)

Could you be a little bit more specific about it ? I have the same problem.. These are my original array getters and setters: public Data[] getData(){ return Data; } public void setData (Data[] data){ Data = data; } I've tried adding these methods (overload): public Data getData(int i){ return Data[i]; } public void setData (int i, Data data){ Data[i] = data; } But my array is empty when it gets serialized in the webservice.. I get a null pointer exception when i'm trying to access the Data array. Any help would be appreciated

OK, my mistake, it's working now :) Thanks for he tip

Hi all, I´m having the same problems, so I follow the tips and it worked. I´m just worried about if this is some rule about web services and array ? or this is just a WebSphere issue? regards

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