How to handle xsd:anyType with Message Style web services ?

[Rr Kumaran]

I have a message style web service with 2 operations like below :

server-config.wsdd

<service name="CatalogPublisherService" provider="java:MSG"
style="message" use="literal">
<parameter name="allowedMethods" value="publishCatalog,newPublishCatalog"/>
<parameter name="className" value="message.CatalogPublisherService"/>
<parameter name="sendMultiRefs" value="false"/>
<parameter name="sendXsiTypes" value="false"/>
</service>
[CODE]
 

 

 
CatalogPublisherService.java has below method signatures:
[CODE]
public Element[] publishCatalog(Element[] inputElementsArray) throws Exception
public Element[] newPublishCatalog(Element[] inputElementsArray)
throws Exception

How to handle xsd:anyType with Message Style web services ?



CatalogPublisherService.wsdl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<wsdl:definitions
targetNamespace="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CatalogPublisherService"
                                               xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"
                                               xmlns:impl="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CatalogPublisherService"
                                               xmlns:intf="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CatalogPublisherService"
                                               xmlns:tns1="http://message"
                                               xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
                                               xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
                                               xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 
 <wsdl:types>
 <schema targetNamespace="http://message"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <element name="publishCatalog" type="xsd:anyType"/>
  <element name="newPublishCatalog" type="xsd:anyType"/>
 </schema>
 
 <schema targetNamespace="http://localhost:8080/axis/services/CatalogPublisherService"
                       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <element name="publishCatalogReturn" type="xsd:anyType"/>
  <element name="newPublishCatalogReturn" type="xsd:anyType"/>
 </schema>
 </wsdl:types>
 
  <wsdl:message name="newPublishCatalogResponse">
 
     <wsdl:part element="impl:newPublishCatalogReturn"
name="newPublishCatalogReturn"/>
 
  </wsdl:message>
 
  <wsdl:message name="publishCatalogRequest">
 
     <wsdl:part element="tns1:publishCatalog" name="part"/>
 
  </wsdl:message>
 
  <wsdl:message name="publishCatalogResponse">
 
     <wsdl:part element="impl:publishCatalogReturn"
name="publishCatalogReturn"/>
 
  </wsdl:message>
 
  <wsdl:message name="newPublishCatalogRequest">
 
     <wsdl:part element="tns1:newPublishCatalog" name="part"/>
 
  </wsdl:message>
 
  <wsdl:portType name="CatalogPublisherService">
 
     <wsdl:operation name="publishCatalog">
 
        <wsdl:input message="impl:publishCatalogRequest"
name="publishCatalogRequest"/>
 
        <wsdl:output message="impl:publishCatalogResponse"
name="publishCatalogResponse"/>
 
     </wsdl:operation>
 
     <wsdl:operation name="newPublishCatalog">
 
        <wsdl:input message="impl:newPublishCatalogRequest"
name="newPublishCatalogRequest"/>
 
        <wsdl:output message="impl:newPublishCatalogResponse"
name="newPublishCatalogResponse"/>
 
     </wsdl:operation>
 
  </wsdl:portType>
 
  <wsdl:binding name="CatalogPublisherServiceSoapBinding"
type="impl:CatalogPublisherService">
 
     <wsdlsoap:binding style="document"
transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
 
     <wsdl:operation name="publishCatalog">
 
        <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction=""/>
 
        <wsdl:input name="publishCatalogRequest">
 
           <wsdlsoap:body use="literal"/>
 
        </wsdl:input>
 
        <wsdl:output name="publishCatalogResponse">
 
           <wsdlsoap:body use="literal"/>
 
        </wsdl:output>
 
     </wsdl:operation>
 
     <wsdl:operation name="newPublishCatalog">
 
        <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction=""/>
 
        <wsdl:input name="newPublishCatalogRequest">
 
           <wsdlsoap:body use="literal"/>
 
        </wsdl:input>
 
        <wsdl:output name="newPublishCatalogResponse">
 
           <wsdlsoap:body use="literal"/>
 
        </wsdl:output>
 
     </wsdl:operation>
 
  </wsdl:binding>
 
  <wsdl:service name="CatalogPublisherServiceService">
 
     <wsdl:port binding="impl:CatalogPublisherServiceSoapBinding"
name="CatalogPublisherService">
 
        <wsdlsoap:address
location="http://localhost:9999/axis/services/CatalogPublisherService"/>
 
     </wsdl:port>
 
  </wsdl:service>
 
</wsdl:definitions>

As you can see in above wsdl the input to the methods are xsd:anyType.
Now say if I want to use the wsdl to generate the stubs and use those
stubs to call the actual service then what type of objects do I need
to create and pass to the service ? I am confused here since finally I
want to give my wsdl to .NET client and wondering how he'll be calling
my service using my wsdl. I am successfully calling the service by
using DII approach rather than stub appraoch in my client program.


Thanks in advance.