Question

I have an .net 2.0 C# client app that has a web service reference to an Axis2 Java Webservice.
The idea is to send some xml data to the webservice, so it can be parsed and inserted into database.
The WS method accepts a single parameter of type ‘xsd:anytype’.

Java web service:

public class JWS{    
    public Response AddData(Object inputXML) {            
        return Response;
    }  
}

C# Client:

JWS client = new JWS();
object inputXML = "<xml>some xml data</xml>";
response = client.AddData(inputXML);

There are 2 issues i am seeing when monitored using fiddler.

1) The request has an additional element '<inputXML>' added before the actual xml data.

<inputXML>&lt;xml&gt;some xml data&lt;/xml&gt;</inputXML>

2) The xml is encoded, so ‘<‘ is appearing as "<"

I am not sure if this is how SOAP request’s are generated but i would like to remove the <inputXML> tag and also, have the xml appear as is without having to replace the special characters.

Is this possible? Is it got something to do with ‘Wrapping’/’UnWrapping’ Types?

Also, i have used SoapUI to test the java web service and it works well. However, in the request tab, i had to manually remove the <inputXML> tag and submit for it to work correctly. Please help.

TIA

Answer 1

I found out that the issue is not with encoding but it was interpreted incorrectly on java side when the message was viewed in axis2. So, it is getting decoded properly. Also, the inputxml is now being handled correctly.