Axis error - No serializer found...

[Faceman]

I am trying to invoke a webservice passing in a custom java bean object, which I have "beanmapped" in the deploy.wsdd but I keep getting the No serializer found for class ... in registry org.apache.axis.encoding.TypeMappingDelegate@e70e30 axis fault.

Java code snippet:

Request request = new Request();
...
Service service = new Service();
 
Call call = (Call)service.createCall();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress(new java.net.URL(endpointURL));
call.setOperationName(operation);
call.addParameter("arg1", new QName("Request", "local"), ParameterMode.IN);
call.setReturnType(new QName("Response", "local"));
 
Response response = (Response)call.invoke(new Object[] {request});

deploy.wsdd:

<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/" xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">
	<service name="myWebservice" provider="java:RPC">
		<parameter name="className" value="com.test.webservice"/>
		<parameter name="allowedMethods" value="retrieveData"/>
		<beanMapping qname="ns:local" xmlns:ns="Request" languageSpecificType="java:com.test.messaging.Request"/>
		<beanMapping qname="ns:local" xmlns:ns="Response" languageSpecificType="java:com.test.messaging.Response"/>
	</service>
</deployment>

[graviton]

have you done the typemapping in your bean class?
eg:

	public static void registerTypeMapping(Call call) {
		call.registerTypeMapping(MYBEAN.class, QNAME,
				new BeanSerializerFactory(MYBEAN.class, QNAME),
				new BeanDeserializerFactory(MYBEAN.class, QNAME));
	}

[Faceman]

Hmm, I wasn't aware you needed to do that. None of the tutorials I read said anything about that. I will give it a try though. Cheers

[graviton]

registering a custom bean looks usually like this:

call.setOperation("myoperation");
call.addParameter("parameter1", Constants.XSD_STRING,
	javax.xml.rpc.ParameterMode.IN);
call.addParameter("parameter2", Constants.XSD_BASE64,
	javax.xml.rpc.ParameterMode.IN);
call.addParameter("parameter3", Constants.XSD_BASE64,
	javax.xml.rpc.ParameterMode.IN);
call.setReturnType(MYBEAN.QNAME);
MYBEAN.registerTypeMapping(call);

where mybean looks like this:

public class MYBEAN{
	private boolean successful;
	private String message;
	private String returnedxml;
	public static final QName QNAME = new QName(
			"http://mybean.anyhost.de", "MYBEAN");

	public final String getMessage() {
		return message;
	}

	public final void setMessage(String status) {
		this.message = status;
	}

	public static void registerTypeMapping(Call call) {
		call.registerTypeMapping(MYBEAN.class, QNAME,
			new BeanSerializerFactory(MYBEAN.class, QNAME),
			new BeanDeserializerFactory(MYBEAN.class, QNAME));
	}

	public final boolean isSuccessful() {
		return successful;
	}

	public final void setSuccessful(boolean successful) {
		this.successful = successful;
	}

	public final String getReturnedXml() {
		return returnedxml;
	}

	public final void setReturnedXml(String returnedxml) {
		this.returnedxml= returnedxml;
	}
}