Eclipse Web Service Explorer not displaying list of Objects as response

Question

I have a basic SOAP based web service. I am able to invoke methods and add information to it. But, while retrieving , the data a single class object seems to be perfectly displayed in the WSE browser. But If I have a list of objects, then I am not able to get any response in the body. Not sure, whats going wrong. Even the logs in console don't throw any error.

IS there a better way to view list of objects in WSE ?

Answer 1

Try clicking the Source link (to the right of the body) to check if the SOAP Response Envelope indeed has multiple objects in it. If it has, you may have encountered a bug in the viewer, if it doesn't - either the service doesn't work as expected, or your Request is not proper.

I tested locally with the following public service (operation getAll ):

http://www.predic8.com:8080/crm/CustomerService?wsdl

It returns a list of many customers (judging from the raw response), but for me WSE only listed a few of the them (and the indentation depicting the hierarchy is wrong), so I guess this view of WSE is not very reliable.

So I'd suggest sticking to the raw XML view in WSE. In my everyday work I prefer using SOAP UI for service exploring/testing. It is free and gets regularly updated - you might want to check it out.

Good luck!