240641 - Arrays are not properly encoded

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Web Services, defect)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

This is hard to properly describe so see the URL above. 

Server side Java Service implements an interface with a method taking an array
of a complex type (Extension), e.g. serviceFunc(Extension[] inArray)

Axis generates WSDL (see URL above) that describes the interface and the method
as taking an ArrayOfExtension, which has enc:arrayType="impl:Extension[]", where
Extension is a complexType (see WSDL in URL above).

Client JS packages up a js obj into an array and WSDL proxy incorrectly encodes
array of complex types as a struct, not a sequence of structs, and sets
enc:arrayType to "anyType"

In short: I can't do 

var ary = [{ prop1: val1, prop2: val2, ... }];
wsdlProxy.serviceFunc(ary);

and have it actually work.

Comment 1

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

Native WSDL and SOAP support has been removed from Mozilla 1.9/Firefox 3