Question

I’m facing a problem with web service.

I had a web service which long time was deployed and running on WebSphere application server using IBM web service’s stack. Now I had migrated it to glassfish v2.1.1 to Axis 1.4 stack. Web service’s WSDL did not change to keep clients compatibility

There is a web service method which has Boolean return type. The problem is when I call my method soap response returns different in glassfish:

Example:

WebSphere:

   <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <soapenv:Body soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
         <checkPendingOperationsResponse xmlns="http://operations.appserver.dealer.omnitel.lt">
            <checkPendingOperationsReturn xsi:type="xsd:boolean" xmlns="">0</checkPendingOperationsReturn>
         </checkPendingOperationsResponse>
      </soapenv:Body>
   </soapenv:Envelope>

Glassfish:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> 
      <soapenv:Body>  
         <ns1:checkPendingOperationsResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://operations.appserver.dealer.omnitel.lt">   
            <checkPendingOperationsReturn href="#id0"/>  
         </ns1:checkPendingOperationsResponse>  
         <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xsi:type="soapenc:boolean" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">false</multiRef> 
      </soapenv:Body>
   </soapenv:Envelope>

The problem is that some clients is not able to handle “false”, “true” values, because earlier returned values was “1”, “0”.

Is there a solution to this or substantiation that it is not possible to solve?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Well if you want to still return 1 and 0 for those values (corresponding to true and false) you can force the return class like it sais here or create an interceptor that changes it before sending the response.