I think we do something like this in our SRU/SRW bridge (full source
http://www.jafer.org/source/wsvn/JAFER/trunk/src/org/jafer/sru/?rev=0&sc
=0 ), but I didn't write the code for that myself.

This goes one way:

          // obtain the serialiser to return this to XML
            QName searchQName = new
QName("http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/", "searchRetrieveResponse");
            Serializer ser =
SearchRetrieveResponseType.getSerializer(null,
SearchRetrieveResponseType.class, searchQName);
            StringWriter responseWriter = new StringWriter();
            ser.serialize(searchQName, null, response, new
SerializationContext(responseWriter));
            String SRWResult = responseWriter.getBuffer().toString();

I've a vague recollection we had something going the other way but can't
find it at the moment...

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LeVan,Ralph
> Sent: 06 June 2007 16:24
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Using the SRWSoapBindingStub to deserialize?
> 
> Yes, I am trying to do object serialization/deserialization outside
the
> SOAP environment, but find the objects created by the Apache Axis
> toolkit too convenient to give up.  So, I was looking for ways to
> switch
> between the XML request/responses and the appropriate objects.  I
think
> I've pretty well mastered that.
> 
> Ralph
> 
> 
> import gov.loc.www.zing.srw.ScanRequestType;
> import gov.loc.www.zing.srw.ScanResponseType;
> import gov.loc.www.zing.srw.SearchRetrieveRequestType;
> import gov.loc.www.zing.srw.SearchRetrieveResponseType;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.io.StringReader;
> import java.io.StringWriter;
> import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
> import org.apache.axis.MessageContext;
> import org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext;
> import org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext;
> import org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer;
> import org.apache.axis.message.RPCElement;
> import org.apache.axis.message.SOAPEnvelope;
> import org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer;
> import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
> 
>     public static String objToXml(Object obj)
>       throws IllegalArgumentException, IOException {
>         QName qn;
>         Serializer s;
>         if(obj instanceof  SearchRetrieveRequestType) {
>             qn=new QName("http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/",
> "searchRetrieveRequest");
>             s=((SearchRetrieveRequestType)obj).getSerializer(
>                 null, obj.getClass(), qn);
>         }
>         else if(obj instanceof  SearchRetrieveResponseType) {
>             qn=new QName("http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/",
> "searchRetrieveResponse");
>             s=((SearchRetrieveResponseType)obj).getSerializer(
>                 null, obj.getClass(), qn);
>         }
>         else if(obj instanceof  ScanRequestType) {
>             qn=new QName("http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/",
> "scanRequest");
> 
>             s=((ScanRequestType)obj).getSerializer(
>                 null, obj.getClass(), qn);
>         }
>         else if(obj instanceof  ScanResponseType) {
>             qn=new QName("http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/",
> "scanResponse");
>             s=((ScanResponseType)obj).getSerializer(
>                 null, obj.getClass(), qn);
>         }
>         else throw new IllegalArgumentException(
>             "Unrecognized object: "+obj.getClass().getName());
> 
>         StringWriter xmlWriter=new StringWriter();
>         s.serialize(qn, null, obj, new
> SerializationContext(xmlWriter));
>         return xmlWriter.toString();
>     }
> 
>     static String EnvelopeStart="<soapenv:Envelope
> xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"
> xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"
> xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
> instance\"><soapenv:Body>";
>     static String EnvelopeEnd="</soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>";
>     public static Object xmlToObj(String xml) throws Exception {
>         Object obj;
>         String leader, soapMessage;
>         leader=xml.substring(0, 20);
>         if(leader.toLowerCase().startsWith("<?")) {
>             // contains processing instruction.  Strip that off
>             int i=xml.indexOf("Envelope");
>             if(i<0)
>                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("XML starts with
> processing instruction but contains no SOAP Envelope");
>             while(i>0 && xml.charAt(i)!='<')
>                 i--;
>             if(i==0)
>                 throw new IllegalArgumentException("XML starts with
> processing instruction but contains no SOAP Envelope element");
>             soapMessage=xml.substring(i);
>         }
>         else if(leader.contains("Envelope")) // use it as it is
>             soapMessage=xml;
>         else // add the soap envelope wrapper
>             soapMessage=EnvelopeStart+xml+EnvelopeEnd;
>         DeserializationContext dser = new DeserializationContext(
>             new InputSource(new StringReader(soapMessage)),
>             new MessageContext(new AxisServer()),
>             org.apache.axis.Message.RESPONSE);
>         dser.parse();
> 
>         SOAPEnvelope env = dser.getEnvelope();
>         RPCElement rpcElem = (RPCElement)env.getFirstBody();
>         String objectType=rpcElem.getLocalName();
>         if(objectType.equals("searchRetrieveRequest"))
> 
> obj=rpcElem.getObjectValue(SearchRetrieveRequestType.class);
>         else if(objectType.equals("searchRetrieveResponse"))
> 
> obj=rpcElem.getObjectValue(SearchRetrieveResponseType.class);
>         else if(objectType.equals("scanRequest"))
>             obj=rpcElem.getObjectValue(ScanRequestType.class);
>         else if(objectType.equals("scanResponse"))
>             obj=rpcElem.getObjectValue(ScanResponseType.class);
>         else
>             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unrecognized XML
> object:
> "+objectType);
>         return obj;
>     }