Complex Object in JAX-WS is created empty - web-services

I'm testing JAX-WS to access the Oracle IRM web serviecs. I can get it to work just fine with AXIS so this isn't an Oracle problem.
What's happening is that I'm getting the following error when making the call:
Expected xsd:anyType - unknown type provided
If I look at the SOAP packet is sent I see that the owner tag is blank under JAX-WS:
<ns1:browseAccounts>
<owner/>
<accountType>All</accountType>
</ns1:browseAccounts>
The same piece under AXIS is this:
<owner xsi:type="ns1:LicenseServer"
xmlns=""
xmlns:ns1="http://www.sealedmedia.com/ls/server/schema">
<serverKey>#############</serverKey>
</owner>
Obviously the owner tag is not getting properly created, this is what I'm using to create that:
AccountServicesPort AA = ORI.getAccountServices();
LicenseServer LicSer = new LicenseServer();
LicSer.setServerKey("#######################");
List<Account> Acts = AA.browseAccounts(LicSer,AccountAccountType.ALL);
Is there some other process that I need to go through to create the object properly?
EDIT
I thought maybe running the LicenseServer creation through ObjectFactory would help. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

Despite the Oracle IRM documentation stating that BrowseAccounts accepts either a LicenseServer object or a Context object for the owner parameter it actually accepts an LicenseServer_ref.
EDIT
Further, I was running JAX-WS under JDK 1.6.0 which is a lower version than JDK 1.6.0_14. The new version supports XMLSeeAlso annotation which allowed JAX-WS to use the proper class for serialization.

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How to get Instance name in CommandBox CF 2018?

I recently started using commandBox to run ColdFusion in my local environment. After I played around for a while one issue I run into was related to adminapi. Here is the code that I use in one of my projects:
adminObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.runtime");
instance = adminObj.getInstanceName();
This code is pretty straight forward and work just fine if I install traditional ColdFusion Developer version on my machine. I tried running this on commandBox: "app":{ "cfengine":"adobe#2018.0.7" }
After I run the code above this is the error message I got:
Object Instantiation Exception.
Class not found: com.adobe.coldfusion.entman.ProcessServer
The first debugging step was to check if component exists. I simply checked that like this:
adminObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.runtime");
writeDump(adminObj);
The result I got on the screen was this:
component CFIDE.adminapi.runtime
extends CFIDE.adminapi.base
METHODS
Then I tried this to make sure method exists in the scope:
adminObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.runtime");
writeDump(adminObj.getInstanceName);
The output looks like this, and that confirmed that method getInstanceName exists.
function getInstanceName
Arguments: none
ReturnType: any
Roles:
Access: public
Output: false
DisplayName:
Hint: returns the current instance name
Description:
The error is occurring only if I call the function getInstanceName(). Does anyone know what could be the reason of this error? Is there any solution for this particular problem? Like I already mentioned this method works in traditional ColdFusion 2018 developer environment. Thank you.
This is a bug in Adobe ColdFusion. The CFC you're creating is trying to create an instance of a specific Java class. I recognize the class name com.adobe.coldfusion.entman.ProcessServer as being related to their enterprise manager which controls features only available in certain versions of CF as well as features only available on their "standard" Tomcat installation (as opposed to a J2E deployment like CommandBox).
Please report this to Adobe in the Adobe bug tracker as they appear to be incorrectly detecting the servlet installation. I worked with them a couple years ago to improve their servlet detection on CommandBox, but I guess they still have some issues.
As a workaround, you could try and find out what jar that class is from on a non-CommandBox installation of Adobe ColdFusion and add it to the path, but I can't promise that it will work and that it won't have negative consequences.

OTRS Webservice as Requestor Test

I'm new to OTRS (3.2) and also new to PERL but I have been given the task of setting up OTRS so that it will make a call to our remote webservice so a record can be created on our end when a ticket is set as "Closed".
I set up various dynamic fields so the customer service rep can fill in additional data that will be passed into the webservice call along with ticket details.
I couldn't get the webservice call to trigger when the ticket was "Closed" but I did get it to trigger when the "priority" was changed so I'm just using that now to test the webservice.
I'm just using the Test.pm and TestSimple.pm files that were included with OTRS.
When I look at the Debugger for the Webserice, I can see that the calls were being made:
$VAR1 = {
'TicketID' => '6'
};
My webservice currently just has one method "create" which just returns true for testing.
however I get the following from the Test.pm
"Got no TicketNumber (2014-09-02 09:20:42, error)"
and the following from the TestSimple.pm
"Error in SOAP call: 404 Not Found at /TARGET/SHARE/var/otrs/Kernel/GenericInterface/Transport/HTTP/SOAP.pm line 578 (2014-09-02 09:20:43, error)
I've spent countless hours on Google but couldn't find anything on this. All I could find is code for the Test.pm and TestSimple.pm but nothing really helpful to help me create a custom invoker for my needs and configure the webservice in OTRS to get it to work.
Does anyone have any sample invokers that I can look at to see how to set it up?
Basically I need to pass the ticket information along with my custom dynamic fields to my webservice. From there I can create the record on my end and do whatever processing.
I'm not sure how to setup the Invoker to pass the necessary ticket fields and dynamic fields and how to make it call a specific method in my remote webservice.
I guess getting the Test.pm and TestSimple.pm to work is the first step then I can modify those for my needs. I have not used PERL at all so any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm also struggling with similar set of requirements too. I've also never programmed in PERL, but I can tell you at least that the "Got no TicketNumber" in the Test.pm is right from the PrepareRequest method, there you can see this block of code:
# we need a TicketNumber
if ( !IsStringWithData( $Param{Data}->{TicketNumber} ) ) {
return $Self->{DebuggerObject}->Error( Summary => 'Got no TicketNumber' );
}
You should change all references to TicketNumber to TicketID, or remove the validation whatsoever (also there is mapping to ReturnedData variable).
Invoking specific methods on your WS interface is quite simple (but poorly documented). The Invoker name that you specify in the "OTRS as requester" section of web service configuration corresponds to the WS method that will be called. So if you have WS interface with a method called "create" just name the Invoker "create" too.
As far as the gathering of dynamic field goes, can't help you on that one yet, sorry.
Cheers

XSockets.NET 4.0 - new controller instance created on method call

After upgrading my .NET server and client projects to 4.0 RC
I get NullReference exceptions because my custom State object is null.
I instantiate the state property in OnOpen event handler, but inside the method body of the first call it is already null.
I have checked in debugger and see that this.GetHashCode() returns different values
in OnOpen event handler and in method, which means it is a different instance.
Is it a known issue? I assume it is very basic behavior and probably I have missed something during upgrade to new version.
Thanks in advance.
I managed to understand the problem. It happens when using PluginAlias.
[XSocketMetadata(PluginAlias =
When attribute is removed and client uses full controller name everything works as expected
and GetHashCode returns same id.
I pushed the replication code to GitHub:
https://github.com/amichel/PlayWithXSockets/tree/ReproduceBugs
When using alias there is a bug (as you have found out).
The workaround is to either use the class name of the controller or only have alias in lower casing.
In your case using
[XSocketMetadata(PluginAlias = "test")]
would work.
Regards
Uffe

Umbraco Document.getProperty(...).Value throws Null Reference Exception

I am writing a small app that links into Umbraco (a small stand-alone console application that will eventually run as a scheduled task on the server) and I'm using the Umbraco APIs (4.5.2) to make changes to the database/document.
Here is a fragment of what I'm doing:
IEnumerable<Document> documents = Document.GetChildrenForTree(parentDocumentId);
foreach (Document doc in documents.Where(d => d.Published))
{
doc.getProperty("myData").Value = "some data"; // Exception here
// ...other stuff here...
}
However I always get a NullReferenceException because there are no properties. This confuses me because I can see that there are 5 properties in the umbraco interface.
A colleague suggested that I use a Node instead of a document, however I can't even create one as I get a NullReferenceException from the Node class constructor.
Node myNode = new Node(-1); // NullReferenceException here
Does anyone have any ideas?
The document class gets/sets information from the umbraco database. Since your running code in an out of band console application it can't find the umbraco context. Therefore throwing a null reference exception.
You need to run the code inside of the umbraco process. There is a asmx webservice that exists for third party integration. /umbraco/webservices/api/documentservice.asmx
Another way of achieving this could be to use linq2umbraco.
for further details see http://our.umbraco.org/forum/core/41-feedback/7699-UmbracoLinq-in-console-app--Having-some-troubles
I checked out the 4.5.2 source recently, to find that populating Document and Node objects only requires a connection using umbracoDbDsn. So if you have an AppSetting called umbracoDbDsn which points to a valid Umbraco database instance, you'll be good.
HTH,
Benjamin

InstantiationException in web service client calling Web Service deployed to JBoss

I'm deploying a StatelessSessionBean annotated with #WebService to JBoss. I'm taking the WSDL generated by JBoss to generate client stubs. My problem is in calling a method which returns a list of objects. If the list is empty the call succeeds however if the list is not empty then I get the following exception:
com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.soap.DeserializationException: Failed to read a response: javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException
- with linked exception:
[javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: Unable to create an instance of com.companyname.api.ws.DataItemType
- with linked exception:
[java.lang.InstantiationException]]
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:124)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SyncMethodHandler.invoke(SyncMethodHandler.java:89)
at com.sun.xml.ws.client.sei.SEIStub.invoke(SEIStub.java:118)
at $Proxy34.getWorkflows(Unknown Source)
at com.companyname.api.SimpleClient.go(SimpleClient.java:48)
Searching the web led me to this discussion here: http://forums.java.net/jive/message.jspa?messageID=281780
However I have set the #XmlSeeAlso stuff correctly and it is present on the generated stub classes. I can confirm that the DataItemType class is abstract so it is not surprising that an attempt to instantiate it causes a problem. I'm not at all clear on why the DataItemType class is being instantiated at all (as it is abstract). This is the XML that is returned from the server (it looks about right to me):
<env:Envelope xmlns:env='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>
<env:Header></env:Header>
<env:Body>
<ns2:getWorkflowsResponse xmlns:ns2="http://ws.api.companyname.com/">
<return>
<id>
<identifier>1</identifier>
<version>0</version>
</id>
<goal>ENROLL</goal>
<dataItemType xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="DataItemTypeText">
<attributeName>email</attributeName>
<displayName>Email Address</displayName>
</dataItemType>
...
</return>
</ns2:getWorkflowsResponse>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
There were a number of issues with the generated WSDL (note that it wasn't a handcrafted one). There was nothing specific that I changed which indicated why this particular exception was thrown (or why, for example, there wasn't a failure when generating the incorrect WSDL).
Once I adjusted the annotations so that a valid WSDL was created then I had further issues which the JAX-WS versions I was using. I ended up upgrading the version used by JBoss which, in turn, led to me needing put the newer JAX-WS jars in my JRE endorsed directory.
I'm not going to detail what I did in any more detail as there was no specific thing that I did that addressed this problem. If anyone else sees it I would suggest being very specific in the annotations you use to generate your WSDL and taking a careful look at your WSDL.