From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.mailing_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:17:42 +0200

Hi,

I have a web service and I want to pass objects as a parameter to a
webmethod. I've created my own (foo.bar.DeliveryPlace) with getters and
setters and it works fine. But I also have a HashMap. I just don't know how
to fill a java.util.HashMap. Here is the code of my webservice :


@WebService
public class Delivery {
    @WebMethod(operationName = "Deliver" )
    @Oneway
    public void deliverItems(@WebParam(name="fomPlace") DeliveryPlace from,
         @WebParam(name="toPlace") DeliveryPlace to,
         @WebParam(name="quantityOfItems") HashMap<Integer, String>
quantityItems) {
        // business code
    }

After deploying the web service and importing the artifacts, a
foo.bar.DeliveryPlace object is created, fine. But for the java.util.HashMap,
the wsimport creates two objects foo.bar.HashMap (instead of
java.util.HashMap) that inherits from foo.bar.AbstractMap

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "abstractMap")
public abstract class AbstractMap {
}

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlType(name = "hashMap")
public class HashMap
    extends AbstractMap {
}

How do I fill a foo.bar.HashMap ? There is no put method of course, but I
can't take a java.util.HashMap and convert it into a foo.bar.HashMap. How
does it work ?

Thanks,

Antonio