Axis client side serializer/deserializer

Question

I have an array MyBean sent over the wire from my server side Axis web service. I got the serialisation working on the client side by adding

<beanMapping qname="MyBean" xmlns:ns="myns.MyBeanService"
                 languageSpecificType="java:myns.Appartment"/>

Now I get No deserializer for {myns.MyBean}MyBean on the client side. How can I tell the client to use the default BeanSerializer and BeanDeserializer since there is no server-config.wsdd ?

Answer 1

(source p51) In the client side class MyServiceSoapBindingStub, right after

org.apache.axis.client.Call _call = createCall();

add

QName qn = new QName("myns.MyBeanService", "MyBean");

call.registerTypeMapping(MyBean.class, qn,
        new BeanSerializerFactory(cl, qn),
        new BeanDeserializerFactory(cl, qn));

This requires the client having a copy of MyBean.java.

Also, if MyBean has sub beans, the same code should be added for all sub beans. It is handy to define a utils class like this:

public final class WSUtils {

    public static void handleSerialization(Call call, String ns, String bean, Class cl) {

        QName qn = new QName(ns, bean);

        call.registerTypeMapping(cl, qn,
                new BeanSerializerFactory(cl, qn),
                new BeanDeserializerFactory(cl, qn));
    }
}

that can be used after the createCall() like this:

WSUtils.handleSerialization(_call, "myns.MyBeanService", "MyBean", MyBean.class);

and for sub beans:

WSUtils.handleSerialization(_call, "myns.MyBeanService", "MySubBean", MySubBean.class);