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remove nullpointer exception

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How to avoid  NullPointerException  while creating a client stub from a  given  WSDL using axis ?

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by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-12 at 00:48:50ID: 21545181

I have a WSDL file.
I want to generate client stub from it .

The WSDL uses complex types  .i  have  a  srv.XSD file


I tried to generate the client stub this way..

D:\folder\java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java  ./myservice.wsdl


       java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaBeanWriter.preprocess(JavaBeanWriter.java:295)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaBeanWriter.<init>(JavaBeanWriter.java:160)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaTypeWriter.getBeanWriter(JavaTypeWriter.java:174)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaTypeWriter.<init>(JavaTypeWriter.java:89)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.toJava.JavaGeneratorFactory.getGenerator(JavaGeneratorFactory.java:318)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser.generateTypes(Parser.java:545)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser.generate(Parser.java:432)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser.access$000(Parser.java:45)
        at org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser$WSDLRunnable.run(Parser.java:362)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)


      whats the resolution ?

      
      

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2008-05-12 at 00:49:37ID: 21545182

Please be more specific - where is the NPE?

 

by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-12 at 00:49:40ID: 21545183

axis version =1.4

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2008-05-12 at 00:57:26ID: 21545217

Try running with

-v

(verbose)

and/or

-D

(debug)

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2008-05-12 at 01:01:24ID: 21545228

I would try, in this order:

D:\folder\java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java  -I ./myservice.wsdl
 
D:\folder\java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java  -v -I ./myservice.wsdl
 
 
D:\folder\java org.apache.axis.wsdl.WSDL2Java  -v -D -I ./myservice.wsdl

                                              
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by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-12 at 02:20:10ID: 21545476

r u sure -I  works ?  i tried with this and got  OPTIONS warning !

anyway,
i tried with -v only....it shows  generating  4 java files (i found 4 java files in the folder) and after that it throws the  same NullPointerError message i posted ?

i tried with -D only ....it shows  some lists which i don't understand whether those are errors or just simple  print out.

 

by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-12 at 02:25:05ID: 21545494

-h, --help
         print this message and exit
 -v, --verbose
         print informational messages
 -n, --noImports
         only generate code for the immediate WSDL document
 -O, --timeout <argument>
         timeout in seconds (default is 45, specify -1 to disable)
 -D, --Debug
         print debug information
 -W, --noWrapped
         turn off support for "wrapped" document/literal
 -q, --quiet
         do not print any informational or debug messages (except err
         ors)
 -s, --server-side
         emit server-side bindings for web service
 -S, --skeletonDeploy <argument>
         deploy skeleton (true) or implementation (false) in deploy.w
         sdd.  Default is false.  Assumes --server-side.
 -N, --NStoPkg <argument>=<value>
         mapping of namespace to package
 -f, --fileNStoPkg <argument>
         file of NStoPkg mappings (default NStoPkg.properties)
 -p, --package <argument>
         override all namespace to package mappings, use this package
          name instead
 -o, --output <argument>
         output directory for emitted files
 -d, --deployScope <argument>
         add scope to deploy.wsdd: "Application", "Request", "Session
         "
 -t, --testCase
         emit junit testcase class for web service
 -a, --all
         generate code for all elements, even unreferenced ones
 -T, --typeMappingVersion <argument>
         indicate 1.1 or 1.2.  The default is 1.1 (SOAP 1.1 JAX-RPC c
         ompliant.  1.2 indicates SOAP 1.1 encoded.)
 -F, --factory <argument>
         name of a custom class that implements GeneratorFactory inte
         rface (for extending Java generation functions)
 -H, --helperGen
         emits separate Helper classes for meta data
 -B, --buildFile
         emit Ant Buildfile for web service
 -U, --user <argument>
         username to access the WSDL-URI
 -P, --password <argument>
         password to access the WSDL-URI
 -X, --classpath
         additional classpath elements
 -i, --nsInclude <argument>
         include namespace in generated code
 -x, --nsExclude <argument>
         exclude namespace from generated code
 -c, --implementationClassName <argument>
         custom name of web service implementation
 -u, --allowInvalidURL
         emit file even if WSDL endpoint URL is not a valid URL
 -w, --wrapArrays
         Prefers building beans to straight arrays for wrapped XML ar
         ray types (defaults to off).


i tried with  I  and i  but none worked

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2008-05-12 at 03:01:02ID: 21545607

I think you might have a different version. This is the guide i was using:

http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/reference.html#WSDL2JavaReference

 

by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-12 at 03:13:19ID: 21545639

whats the command to check my  axis version ?

 

by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-12 at 03:15:28ID: 21545648

note , thats the  options i got  from the console after running .

 

by: CEHJPosted on 2008-05-12 at 03:53:24ID: 21545788

>>whats the command to check my  axis version ?

Strange, there doesn't seem to be one

 

by: mbodewesPosted on 2008-05-12 at 15:00:55ID: 21550848

A simple google to the Axis web site as code snippit (hope this parses right):

Test a SOAP Endpoint
 
Now it's time to test a service. Although SOAP 1.1 uses HTTP POST to submit an XML request to the endpoint, Axis also supports a crude HTTP GET access mechanism, which is useful for testing. First let's retrieve the version of Axis from the version endpoint, calling the getVersion method:
 
http://localhost:8080/axis/services/Version?method=getVersion
 
This should return something like:
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<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>
    <getVersionResponse
     soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
      <getVersionReturn
       xsi:type="xsd:string">
         Apache Axis version: 1.1 Built on Apr 04, 2003 (01:30:37 PST)
      </getVersionReturn>
    </getVersionResponse>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

                                              
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by: cofactorPosted on 2008-05-13 at 02:38:42ID: 21553406

I did as @mbodewes: above and got

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <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>
- <soapenv:Fault>
  <faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Server.NoService</faultcode>
  <faultstring>The AXIS engine could not find a target service to invoke! targetService is null</faultstring>
- <detail>
  <ns2:hostname xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">XXXXXXXXXXXXX</ns2:hostname>
  </detail>
  </soapenv:Fault>
  </soapenv:Body>
  </soapenv:Envelope>



i have masked the hostname in the above.

 

by: cofactorPosted on 2008-08-19 at 19:39:00ID: 22265699

I have used  ant axis ......this comes with the distribution.

i am pasting the sample tags here .

<taskdef name="axis-java2wsdl" classname="org.apache.axis.tools.ant.wsdl.Java2WsdlAntTask"
    loaderref="axis" >
        <classpath refid="classpath.id"/>
         
</taskdef>
<taskdef name="axis-admin" classname="org.apache.axis.tools.ant.axis.AdminClientTask"
    loaderref="axis" >
        <classpath refid="classpath.id"/>
</taskdef>
<taskdef name="axis-wsdl2java" classname="org.apache.axis.tools.ant.wsdl.Wsdl2javaAntTask"
    loaderref="axis" >
        <classpath refid="classpath.id"/>
</taskdef>

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