ADF WS Data Control - Methods with "Object" instead of native types

Luigi B.

Recently we noticed an odd behavior when integrating SOA Suite services with ADF Web Service Data Controls:

- Considering a service, where the WSDL has the following operation:

<wsdl:operation name="CreateEmployee">
  <wsdl:input message="inp1:requestCreateEmployeeMessage"/>
  <wsdl:output message="inp1:replyCreateEmployeeMessage"/>
</wsdl:operation>

- And the request message is:

<wsdl:message name="requestCreateEmployeeMessage">
  <wsdl:part name="payload" element="inp1:CreateEmployeeRequest"/>
</wsdl:message>

- And the element in the message:

<element name="CreateEmployeeRequest">
  <complexType>
  <sequence>
  <element name="EmployeeId" type="int" minOccurs="0"/>
  <element name="EmployeeName" type="string" minOccurs="0" nillable="true"/>
  <element name="Salary" type="decimal" minOccurs="0"/>
  </sequence>
  </complexType>
</element>

- If that service is added to an ADF project as a Web Service Data Control, the method in the data control will be show as:

CreateEmployee(Object)

- However, if you change the WSDL, so that the element has the EXACT same name as the opperation:

<wsdl:message name="requestCreateEmployeeMessage">
  <wsdl:part name="payload" element="inp1:CreateEmployee"/>
</wsdl:message>
<element name="CreateEmployee">
  <complexType>
  <sequence>
  <element name="EmployeeId" type="int" minOccurs="0"/>
  <element name="EmployeeName" type="string" minOccurs="0" nillable="true"/>
  <element name="Salary" type="decimal" minOccurs="0"/>
  </sequence>
  </complexType>
</element>

- Then Data Control method will be shown as:

CreateEmployee(Integer, String, BigDecimal)

This is strange because the WSDL is still valid if the root element of the request has a different name than the operation (this SOA service was actually created using JDeveloper).

Besides this solution I'm sharing, alternatives would be:

1) Create a proxy for the service and register the proxy as a Data Control instead

2) Programatically invoke the service, as shown here

Is this a Bug?

Shay Shmeltzer-Oracle

When you have an object as a parameter in a data control you should also see a parameter object created that has the simple types in it.

See for example the video here:

https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/entry/calling_web_service_with_complex

Shay Shmeltzer-Oracle

When you have an object as a parameter in a data control you should also see a parameter object created that has the simple types in it.

See for example the video here:

https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/entry/calling_web_service_with_complex

Frank Nimphius-Oracle

Hi,

in the first case, have a look at the constructors in the DC. It will have the object (entity) as a node. You use this to e.g. create an edit form for the method call. The iterator --> get current row of the parameter form is then the object it wants you to pass. So no need to change the WS

Frank

Luigi B.

I still find the fact that ADF has different behaviors, depending on the name of the operation/element really odd, but this solves my problem without changing the service, so I'm good with that, thanks!