"The specified type was not recognized" exception when trying to invoke a webservice call
- by fretje
I'm trying to call a third party webservice using WSE 3.0 as a client in Visual Studio 2005.
The call works fine and I can see that I get a good response (I have tracing enabled), but apparently the xml parser chokes over it. I always get an InvalidOperationException:
There is en error in the XML document.
with an InnerException:
The specified type was not recognized: name='Map', namespace='http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap', at <bevoegdheid xmlns=''>.
This is the relevant part of the response:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns2="https://acceptatie.cartalk.nl/Soap/Apk" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:opvragenKeurmeesterGegevensResponse>
<opvragenKeurmeesterGegevensReturn xsi:type="ns2:Backend_Apk_Result_OpvragenKeurmeesterGegevens">
<naam xsi:type="xsd:string">A name</naam>
...
<bevoegdheid SOAP-ENC:arrayType="ns1:Map[2]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array">
<item xsi:type="ns1:Map">
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">soortBevoegdheid</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">AL</value>
</item>
...
</item>
<item>
...
</item>
</bevoegdheid>
<meldingSoort xsi:nil="true" />
<meldingNummer xsi:nil="true" />
<melding xsi:nil="true" />
</opvragenKeurmeesterGegevensReturn>
</SOAP-ENV:opvragenKeurmeesterGegevensResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
And this is how that "bevoegdheid" is defined in the wsdl:
<xsd:element name="bevoegdheid" type="soap-enc:Array" />
There is no mention of a "Map" type anywhere in the wsdl.
I have been googling around for this, but the only kind of answer I've found is something along the lines of
The service uses rpc/encoded format which is harder to get interoperability with. If you can change the server to document/literal it is better.
But as this is a third party service (which is already used by other clients), this is no option for us.
Any other suggestions? How can I get the xml parser to recognize that "Map" type?
