Question

I’m using Netbeans to create a web application project. The IDE adds METRO2.0 libraries when I create a new web service (code first WS). The SOAP web service is well deployed in my apache Tomcat 6. However, when I send a complex type, the client couldn’t access to the methods of the sended object in the client.
Say I have a class called Person and an operation:

@WebMethod(operationName = "getOnePerson")
    public Person getOnePerson() {

        return new Person("MyName", "MySurname", 24);
    }

And the Person class:

public class Person {

    private String name, surname;
    private int age;

    public Person() {

    }
    public Person(String name, String surname, int age) {
        this.name = name;
        this.surname = surname;
        this.age = age;
    }

    public int getAge() {
        return age;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getSurname() {
        return surname;
    }
}

So how may I make the client know the Person methods?
Thanks
EDIT: I’ve tried to update my XSD file by adding Pesron’s attributes:

<xs:complexType name="person">
        <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string" />
        <xs:attribute name="surname" type="xs:string" />
        <xs:attribute name="age" type="xs:int" />
    </xs:complexType>

By adding this portion, the client knows the getter & setter of the class Person but when trying to run the program, all the getters return null (client side):

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {
            Person p = getOnePerson();
            System.out.println(p);
            System.out.println(p.getSurname());
            System.out.println(p.getName());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static Person getOnePerson() {
        com.company.ws.BeanWebService_Service service = new com.company.ws.BeanWebService_Service();
        com.company.ws.BeanWebService port = service.getBeanWebServicePort();
        return port.getOnePerson();
    }
}

returns:
com.company.ws.Person@d75415
null
null
So could you please tell me why the client doesn’t know the different values of class’s attribute?

Answer 1

What I have found and resolves the problem:

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType (name = "Person", propOrder = {"name","surname", "age"})
public class Person {
    @XmlElement(name="name",required = true)
    private String name;

    @XmlElement(name="surname",required = true)
    private String surname;

    @XmlElement(name="age",required = true)
    private int age;

//GETTER & SETTER
}

Thank you!