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<h1>JiBX Unwrapped document/literal</h1>
<p>Code generation for JiBX data binding converts operations
defined by a Web service to method calls. In the most general case
of document/literal (doc/lit) Web services the generated methods
each take a single parameter object and return a single result
object. This type of interface can be painful for developers
because it adds both a layer of indirection and potentially a large
number of extra classes (one input and one output class for each
generated method).</p>
<p>Fortunately, there's an alternative way of generating methods
that gives a much more usable API for many Web services. This
alternative is called <i>unwrapping</i>, and the service
definitions that it applies to are called <i>wrapped</i>
definitions. The key difference that qualifies a service definition
as wrapped is the structure of the input and output elements used
for operations.</p>
<p>Here's a sample wrapped WSDL (partial) by way of an example:</p>
<pre>
&lt;wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://ws.sosnoski.com/library/wsdl"
    xmlns:tns="http://ws.sosnoski.com/library/types"
    xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
    xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"&gt;
    
  &lt;wsdl:types&gt;
  
    &lt;schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
        targetNamespace="http://ws.sosnoski.com/library/types"
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
        
      &lt;element name="getBook"&gt;
        &lt;complexType&gt;
          &lt;sequence&gt;
            &lt;element name="isbn" type="string"/&gt;
          &lt;/sequence&gt;
        &lt;/complexType&gt;
      &lt;/element&gt;
      
      &lt;element name="getBookResponse"&gt;
        &lt;complexType&gt;
          &lt;sequence&gt;
            &lt;element name="book" minOccurs="0" type="tns:BookInformation"/&gt;
          &lt;/sequence&gt;
        &lt;/complexType&gt;
      &lt;/element&gt;
      
      &lt;element name="addBook"&gt;
        &lt;complexType&gt;
          &lt;sequence&gt;
            &lt;element name="type" type="string"/&gt;
            &lt;element name="isbn" type="string"/&gt;
            &lt;element name="author" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="string"/&gt;
            &lt;element name="title" type="string"/&gt;
          &lt;/sequence&gt;
        &lt;/complexType&gt;
      &lt;/element&gt;
      
      &lt;element name="addBookResponse"&gt;
        &lt;complexType&gt;
          &lt;sequence&gt;
            &lt;element name="success" type="boolean"/&gt;
          &lt;/sequence&gt;
        &lt;/complexType&gt;
      &lt;/element&gt;
      
      &lt;complexType name="BookInformation"&gt;
        &lt;sequence&gt;
          &lt;element name="author" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="string"/&gt;
          &lt;element name="title" type="string"/&gt;
        &lt;/sequence&gt;
        &lt;attribute name="type" use="required" type="string"/&gt;
        &lt;attribute name="isbn" use="required" type="string"/&gt;
      &lt;/complexType&gt;
      
    &lt;/schema&gt;

  &lt;/wsdl:types&gt;

  &lt;wsdl:message name="getBookRequest"&gt;
    &lt;wsdl:part element="wns:getBook" name="parameters"/&gt;
  &lt;/wsdl:message&gt;

  &lt;wsdl:message name="getBookResponse"&gt;
    &lt;wsdl:part element="wns:getBookResponse" name="parameters"/&gt;
  &lt;/wsdl:message&gt;

  &lt;wsdl:message name="addBookRequest"&gt;
    &lt;wsdl:part element="wns:addBook" name="parameters"/&gt;
  &lt;/wsdl:message&gt;
  
  &lt;wsdl:message name="addBookResponse"&gt;
    &lt;wsdl:part element="wns:addBookResponse" name="parameters"/&gt;
  &lt;/wsdl:message&gt;

  &lt;wsdl:portType name="Library"&gt;

    &lt;wsdl:operation name="getBook"&gt;
      &lt;wsdl:input message="wns:getBookRequest" name="getBookRequest"/&gt;
      &lt;wsdl:output message="wns:getBookResponse" name="getBookResponse"/&gt;
    &lt;/wsdl:operation&gt;

    &lt;wsdl:operation name="addBook"&gt;
      &lt;wsdl:input message="wns:addBookRequest" name="addBookRequest"/&gt;
      &lt;wsdl:output message="wns:addBookResponse" name="addBookResponse"/&gt;
    &lt;/wsdl:operation&gt;

  &lt;/wsdl:portType&gt;
  ...
&lt;/wsdl:definitions&gt;
</pre>
<p>This WSDL defines a service with just two operations:
<b>getBook</b> and <b>addBook</b>. The <b>getBook</b> operation
takes a <i>getBook</i> element as input, and returns a
<i>getBookResponse</i> element as output, while <b>addBook</b>
takes an <i>addBook</i> element as input and returns an
<i>addBookResponse</i> as output. Each of these input and output
elements in turn consists of a sequence of child elements, with
some of the child elements defined directly using standard schema
types and others referencing user-defined schema types.</p>
<p>As I said up front, this WSDL qualifies for unwrapped handling
using JiBX. Here's the body of the client interface generated when
using unwrapping (the <i>-uw</i> option for WSDL2Java):</p>
<pre>
    public interface LibraryJibxUnwrapped {
          
             
        /**
         * Auto generated method signatures
         * @param type* @param isbn* @param author* @param title
         */
         public boolean addBook(
         java.lang.String type,java.lang.String isbn,java.lang.String[] author,java.lang.String title) throws java.rmi.RemoteException
          
                       
             ;
             
             
        /**
         * Auto generated method signatures
         * @param isbn
         */
         public com.sosnoski.ws.library.jibx.beans.Book getBook(
         java.lang.String isbn) throws java.rmi.RemoteException
          
                       
             ;
             

        
       //
       }
</pre>
<p>You can see that the JiBX code generation converted the
operations into simple method call interfaces without introducing
any extraneous objects (see <a href=
"./jibx-doclit-example.html">JiBX Document/Literal Example</a> for
the interface generated when unwrapping is not used). The
server-side interface is the same.</p>
<p>The key points that allow unwrapped handling with JiBX are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Each operation either accepts no input, or the input consists
of a single element.</li>
<li>Each input element is defined as a schema <i>complexType</i>
consisting of a <i>sequence</i> of any number of child
elements.</li>
<li>Each operation either generates no output, or the output
consists of a single element.</li>
<li>Each output element is defined as a schema <i>complexType</i>
consisting of a <i>sequence</i> that's either empty or contains a
single child element.</li>
<li>The child elements of both inputs and outputs are defined using
<i>type</i> references, rather than an embedded type
definitions.</li>
</ol>
<p>You also need to supply an appropriate JiBX binding definition
(using the <i>-Ebindingfile {file}</i> parameter for WSDL2Java -
see <a href="./jibx-codegen-integration.html#codegen">JiBX Codegen
Integration - WSDL2Java usage</a> for more details). This must
define abstract <i>mapping</i>s for the <i>complexType</i>s
referenced by child elements of the inputs and outputs, with a
<i>type-name</i> attribute matching the schema <i>complexType</i>
name. If the child elements reference schema <i>simpleType</i>
definitions the binding must also define a <i>format</i>s for each
<i>simpleType</i>, with a <i>label</i> attribute matching the
schema <i>simpleType</i> name. The binding definition must also
specify the <i>force-classes='true'</i> attribute on the
<i>binding</i> element.</p>
<p>For example, here's a binding definition that matches the above
WSDL:</p>
<pre>
&lt;binding force-classes="true" xmlns:tns="http://ws.sosnoski.com/library/types"&gt;

  &lt;namespace uri="http://ws.sosnoski.com/library/types" default="elements"/&gt;
  
  &lt;mapping abstract="true" class="com.sosnoski.ws.library.jibx.beans.Book"
      type-name="tns:BookInformation"&gt;
    &lt;value name="type" style="attribute" field="m_type"/&gt;
    &lt;value name="isbn" style="attribute" field="m_isbn"/&gt;
    &lt;collection field="m_authors"&gt;
      &lt;value name="author"/&gt;
    &lt;/collection&gt;
    &lt;value name="title" field="m_title"/&gt;
  &lt;/mapping&gt;
  
&lt;/binding&gt;
</pre>
<p>And here's the actual
<code>com.sosnoski.ws.library.jibx.beans.Book</code> class:</p>
<pre>
package com.sosnoski.ws.library.jibx.beans;

public class Book
{
    private String m_type;
    private String m_isbn;
    private String m_title;
    private String[] m_authors;
    
    public Book() {}

    public String getType() {
        return m_type;
    }
    
    public String getIsbn() {
        return m_isbn;
    }
    
    public String getTitle() {
        return m_title;
    }
    
    public String[] getAuthors() {
        return m_authors;
    }
}
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<p>The JiBX code generation for Axis2 currently requires that
classes coresponding to unwrapped child elements (such as
<code>com.sosnoski.ws.library.jibx.beans.Book</code>, in this case)
provide public default (no-argument) constructors.</p>
<p>JiBX handling allows the child elements of both inputs and
outputs to be optional (with <i>nillable='true'</i>,
<i>minOccurs='0'</i>, or both), providing the binding converts
these child elements to object types rather than primitive types.
It also allows repeated child elements (with
<i>minOccurs='unbounded'</i>, or any value of <i>minOccurs</i>
greater than one), representing the repeated elements as arrays of
the corresponding object or primitive types.</p>
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