Problem with Namespace Prefixes with Axis1 but not Axis2

[Mike Spolarich]

Greetings,

I have done Web Service client and server programming for a bit, and have always used Axis2 as my tool of choice. Unfortunately I've run into a situation at work where my code is going to be deployed on a box running a 1.4 JRE , so I am unable to use Axis2 for my current project. I have built a working consumer for the web service I need to interface with in Axis2. When I run it, it creates the following SOAP Request (captured by TCPTrace):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Body> <ns2:XXXRequest xmlns:ns2="http://ae.xxx.com/XXX"> <ns2:XXX_IDENTIFIER> <ns2:PART_NUMBER>XXXXXX</ns2:PART_NUMBER> <ns2:PART_REVISION>XXXXX</ns2:PART_REVISION> </ns2:XXX_IDENTIFIER> </ns2:XXXRequest> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>

Once I found out that I was unable to use Axis2 in my deployment environment, I downloaded an old version of Axis1, ran its wsdl2java tool, and changed my client around to use the new stubs. My captured Request XML now looks like:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soapenv:Body> <XXXRequest xmlns="http://ae.xxx.com/XXX"> <XXX_IDENTIFIER> <PART_NUMBER>XXXXXX</PART_NUMBER> <PART_REVISION>XXXXX</PART_REVISION> </XXX_IDENTIFIER> </XXXRequest> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>


This is causing the service to throw a SOAP Fault because the XXX_IDENTIFIER, PART_NUMBER, and PART_REVISION fields are not assigned to the correct namespace, and the message is viewed as missing required parameters by the service side validator. I looked through the stubs and the fields seem to be Named and Typed correctly in the static TypeDesc initialization block that backs the Serializer (From XXX_IDENTIFIER.java):

 // Type metadata
    private static org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc typeDesc =
        new org.apache.axis.description.TypeDesc(XXX_IDENTIFIER.class, true);

    static {
        typeDesc.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("", "XXX_IDENTIFIER"));
        org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc();
        elemField.setFieldName("PART_NUMBER");
        elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://ae.xxx.com/XXX", "PART_NUMBER"));
        elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "string"));
        elemField.setNillable(false);
        typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField);
        elemField = new org.apache.axis.description.ElementDesc();
        elemField.setFieldName("PART_REVISION");
        elemField.setXmlName(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://ae.xxx.com/XXX", "PART_REVISION"));
        elemField.setXmlType(new javax.xml.namespace.QName("http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema", "string"));
        elemField.setNillable(false);
        typeDesc.addFieldDesc(elemField);
    }

Does anyone with Axis1 experience know what I need to change to genereate prefixes or namespace attributes for all of the internal request elements? I'm really kind of stuck on this issue.

Thanks and Regards,

Mike