GroovyWS and complex requests

Question

I\'ve faced with a problem of sending complex requests with GroovyWS.

This is sample request generated by soapUI:

Answer 1

GroovyWS dynamically creates classes for each of the argument types you need in order to pass data to the web service call. For instance, if the webservice call was:

public int passSomeArgs( Arg1Type a, Arg2Type b );

GroovyWS would dynamically create an Arg1Type class and an Arg2Type class, which you could access via a method on the proxy.

// this will instantiate an Arg1Type for you
def arg1 = proxy.create( "ns1.ns2.Arg1Type" );  
// this will instantiate an Arg2Type for you
def arg2 = proxy.create( "ns1.ns2.Arg2Type" );  

You can then populate the arg1/arg2 instance with data and make your call:

int ret = proxy.passSomeArgs( arg1, arg2 );

Note, there are probably some namespaces involved in the classes being created. I used the CXF logging that was printed as GroovyWS was processing the WSDL to see what CXF thought the class names should actually be.