[AXIS-2664] Axis generate invalid soap when using RPC/encoded where exists omittable fields (minOccurs=0) and nillable=false

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: Serialization/Deserialization
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Patrick Di Loreto
• Created: 14/May/07 09:26
• Updated: 25/Oct/07 11:14

Description

While using axis 1.4 with webMethods EAI system I have encountered the following problem :

Axis generate an invalid soap message in RPC/encoded WS where exists omittable (minOccurs="0") fields and nillable = "false".
Axis don't omit the field when null but put it in soap message with nill value.

Exploring source code I have found the following check in org.apache.axis.encoding.ser.BeanSerializer.java class at row : 222

// if meta data says minOccurs=0, then we can skip
// it if its value is null and we aren't doing SOAP
// encoding.
if (isOmittable && !isEncoded)

{ continue; }

It seams a choice to not apply omittable behavior while using soap/encoding. Is it correct ? Is it a standard ? WebMethods aspect that this field was omitted and not nill.

I fixed it just as follow :

// if meta data says minOccurs=0, then we can skip
// it if its value is null and we aren't doing SOAP
// encoding.
if (isOmittable){ // && !isEncoded) { continue; }

What can I aspect on next version of Axis ?

Thx