RE: How to reference nested complex type

Chris,

re: why cannot ...

The example I gave is very simple.  The tools being developed are
generating java mappings for COBOL record structures.  Every
group level data item in the cobol record structure becomes
a nested java class (at least that is the intent).

Hence, each cobol group is represented as a complex type.
In COBOL, it is possible to nest groups several
layers deep, but in most cases, two or three levels
is typical.

I discovered by examining the verbose output of WSDL2JAVA
that the correct reference is "tns:outerType>innerType".

Unfortunately, as you observe, WSDL2JAVA does not deal
with the nested types, and managed to emit java that
does not compile because the nested types are not defined.

Ultimately, I had to split the individual complex types out
and define them at the main schema level.

Thanks for looking.

Michael


                                                                           
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You're probably posting this message to the wrong forum..but anyways..

I don't think WSDL2Java allows nested complex types; an external scoped
definition would be needed. But let me check on this.

On a side note, why cannot you have this:

<types>
    <xsd:schema targetNamespace="urn:bpel:jiap">

    <xsd:complexType name="subsidyAgreementRequestType">
          <xsd:sequence>
            <xsd:element name="address" type="xsd:string"/>
            <xsd:element name="schoolBusArrival" type="xsd:string"/>
          </xsd:sequence>
    </xsd:complexType>
    <xsd:complexType name="syncSubsidyAgreementRequestMsg">

         <xsd:sequence>
          <xsd:element type="tns:subsidyAgreementRequestType" name=
"subsidyAgreementRequest"/>
          <xsd:element type="xsd:string" name="mode"/>
        </xsd:sequence>
      </xsd:complexType>

...

</types>

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael.Giroux@xxxxxxxx [mailto:Michael.Giroux@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:28 PM
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Subject:  How to reference nested complex type






I'm attempting to write a WSDL that contains a schema with nested complex
types.  The outer type contains an xsd:element reference to the nested
complex type.  When I run WSDL2JAVA I get an error on the reference to the
nested type: Type
{url:bpel:jiap:syncSubsidyAgreementRequestMsg}subsidyAgreementRequestType
is referenced but not defined.

Question: what is the correct syntax for referencing the nested type.  It
has scope local to the outer complexType, so I'm guessing that I need to
form a fully qualified name that references both the containing type and
the
nested one, but so far, I cannot find documentation on this, and I've been
unable to guess at the correct syntax.

Michael Giroux

  <types>
    <xsd:schema targetNamespace="urn:bpel:jiap">

      <xsd:complexType name="syncSubsidyAgreementRequestMsg">

        <xsd:complexType name="subsidyAgreementRequestType">
          <xsd:sequence>
            <xsd:element name="address" type="xsd:string"/>
            <xsd:element name="schoolBusArrival" type="xsd:string"/>
          </xsd:sequence>
        </xsd:complexType>

        <xsd:sequence>
          <xsd:element type="tns:subsidyAgreementRequestType" name=
"subsidyAgreementRequest"/>
          <xsd:element type="xsd:string" name="mode"/>
        </xsd:sequence>
      </xsd:complexType>

...