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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:54:48 -0500
From: Octav Chipara <ochipara@cse.unl.edu>
To: soap-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Deserialization Problem
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Hi Gerd,

I was able to get over the deserialization problem as well. I have made my
web service return a java class and it works fine in this way. However, I
believe that what you have done is much better ... :-)

Octav

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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Hovhannes Avoyan wrote:

> I found the cause of the deserialization problem which seems a bug in Xer=
ces
> package. In the org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl class there is a method
> getAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName) which should return
> null if that attribute does not have a specified or default value. But in
> some cases it returns "" instead of null (which is checked in the SOAP
> package). There is another method getAttribute(String name) which should
> return "" (NOT null) and it seems that the developer just copy the code
> fragment from that method. Here is the getAttributeNS method so you can
> judge by yourself:
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>     /* @return String       The Attr value as a string, or null
>      *                      if that attribute
>      *                      does not have a specified or default value.
>      * @since WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923
>      */
>     public String getAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName) {
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>         if (syncData()) {
>             synchronizeData();
>         }
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>         if (attributes =3D=3D null) {
>             return "";    // HERE IS THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM
>         }
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>         Attr attr =3D (Attr)(attributes.getNamedItemNS(namespaceURI,
> localName));
>         return (attr =3D=3D null) ? null : attr.getValue(); // HERE IT RE=
TURN
> null - THIS IS CORRECT CODE
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>     } // getAttributeNS(String,String):String
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> Hope that helps
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> Regards
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> Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO CEDIT
> www.cedit.am
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gerd Aschemann <ascheman@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
> To: <soap-dev@xml.apache.org>
> Cc: <soap-dev@xml.apache.org>; <monica_pintoa@yahoo.es>;
> <ochipara@cse.unl.edu>; <soap-user@xml.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Deserialization Problem
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> > (Since you were asking on the Apache soap-dev/user lists I suppose you
> > ran into this problem with the Apache xml-soap impl.)
> >
> > Octav Chipara wrote/schrieb:
> > > I trying to make a web service using SOAP and Tomcat. I'm getting a
> > > deserialization problem: No deserializer found to deserialize a
> > > http://schemas.xmlsopa.org/soap/envelope/:Paramerter using style ''
> > >
> > > I know this is a well-known issue but I did not
> > > find  the archive for the mails posted on this list so I will ask you
> for
> > > some suggestions how I could go about and solve the problem.
> >
> > As someone else suggested, you will find the archives on
> >
> >
> http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/discussion?ReadForm&/forum/soap4j.ns=
f/d
> iscussion?createdocument
> >
> > The problem is discussed there multiple times and seems to occur with
> > Xerces 1.1.1 (and should be solved with newer releases of Xerces).
> > The suggested solution is to use Xerces 1.0.3. However, I still
> > encounter the problem with Xerces 1.1.2. Switching back to Xerces
> > 1.0.3 I encounter a new problem:
> >
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> > org/apache/xerces/utils/Base64
> > at
> org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.Base64Serializer.<init>(Base64Serializer=
=2Eja
> va:18)
> >         at
> org.apache.soap.encoding.SOAPMappingRegistry.<init>(SOAPMappingRegistry.j=
ava
> :248)
> >         at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.<init>(Call.java:84)
> >         at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.<init>(Call.java:89)
> >         at samples.addressbook.GetAllListings.main(GetAllListings.java:=
91)
> >
> > Any ideas how to finally solve this issue?
> >
> > --
> > Gerd Aschemann --- Aschemann@Informatik.TU-Darmstadt.de
> >     Ver=F6ffentlichen hei=DFt Ver=E4ndern (Carmen Thomas)
> >
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