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xsd:base64Binary vs Datahandler

843833Apr 10 2009 — edited Apr 10 2009
Hi There,
I was developing a webservice using top down approach( wsdl to java). So in one of my complex types, I defined an element type as xsd:base64Binary( in wsdl file)
<xsd:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="token" type="xsd:base64Binary"/>

When I convert this wsdl to java, a java class for this complex type will be created and the type of token is javax.activation.DataHandler.

So in serverside if I have a byte array, how will I convert that to a valid javax.activation.DataHandler object and vice versa in client side?

I hope I have provided enough info here to understand the issue. Please feel free to ask otherwise.

Thanks,
Jose John

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jtahlborn
annoyingly, this is not as easy as it should be. basically, you need to wrap the byte[] in a ByteArrayInputStream, and wrap that in an instance of a DataSource which returns this stream from the getInputStream method (and then wrap the DataSource in a DataHandler). there may be some internal sun classes which simplify this (something like ByteArrayDataSource), but i'm not sure.
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