RE: newbie .net interop question

[Anne Thomas Manes]

I would expect another SOAP toolkit to croak on this WSDL. The big issue is
that it hasn't imported the apachesoap namespace, therefore there's no
definition of the apachesoap:Document type.

Note that this WSDL creates a wrapper element for the input document
(tns1:request) and the output document (impl:processRequestReturn), so I
don't think it's quite what you wanted (arbitrary input and output
documents).  

There's another problem in the WSDL -- the <wsdlsoap:body> elements should
not include the namespace attributes.

Are you using the latest build? This problem should have been fixed in the
latest beta.

Anne

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Anderer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:59 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie .net interop question

The goal is to have a simple service that can accept and return an 
arbitrary XML document.  Environment is Axis 1.2 beta.

Given a method definition:

        public Document processRequest(Document request)

..and a deployment descriptor:

    <service name="RequestFromVendorService" style="document">
        <requestFlow>
           <..some handlers..>
        </requestFlow>
        <responseFlow>
           <..some handlers..>
        </responseFlow>
      <parameter name="className" 
value="com.abc.midtier.RequestFromVendorService" />
      <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="processRequest" />
    </service>

This yields the following WSDL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions
targetNamespace="http://localhost:8080/gvi/services/RequestFromVendorService
" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";
xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap";
xmlns:impl="http://localhost:8080/gvi/services/RequestFromVendorService";
xmlns:intf="http://localhost:8080/gvi/services/RequestFromVendorService";
xmlns:tns1="http://midtier.abc.com";
xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";
xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
<!--WSDL created by Apache Axis version: 1.2beta
Built on Mar 31, 2004 (12:47:03 EST)-->
 <wsdl:types>
  <schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
targetNamespace="http://midtier.abc.com";
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
   <element name="request" type="apachesoap:Document"/>
  </schema>
  <schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
targetNamespace="http://localhost:8080/gvi/services/RequestFromVendorService
" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>
   <element name="processRequestReturn" type="apachesoap:Document"/>
  </schema>

 </wsdl:types>

   <wsdl:message name="processRequestResponse">

      <wsdl:part element="impl:processRequestReturn"
name="processRequestReturn"/>

   </wsdl:message>

   <wsdl:message name="processRequestRequest">

      <wsdl:part element="tns1:request" name="request"/>

   </wsdl:message>

   <wsdl:portType name="RequestFromVendorService">

      <wsdl:operation name="processRequest" parameterOrder="request">

         <wsdl:input message="impl:processRequestRequest"
name="processRequestRequest"/>

         <wsdl:output message="impl:processRequestResponse"
name="processRequestResponse"/>

      </wsdl:operation>

   </wsdl:portType>

   <wsdl:binding name="RequestFromVendorServiceSoapBinding"
type="impl:RequestFromVendorService">

      <wsdlsoap:binding style="document"
transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>

      <wsdl:operation name="processRequest">

         <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction=""/>

         <wsdl:input name="processRequestRequest">

            <wsdlsoap:body namespace="http://midtier.abc.com";
use="literal"/>

         </wsdl:input>

         <wsdl:output name="processRequestResponse">

            <wsdlsoap:body
namespace="http://localhost:8080/gvi/services/RequestFromVendorService";
use="literal"/>

         </wsdl:output>

      </wsdl:operation>

   </wsdl:binding>

   <wsdl:service name="RequestFromVendorServiceService">

      <wsdl:port binding="impl:RequestFromVendorServiceSoapBinding"
name="RequestFromVendorService">

         <wsdlsoap:address
location="http://localhost:8080/gvi/services/RequestFromVendorService"/>

      </wsdl:port>

   </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>


All looks good to me, and WSDL2Java handles it nicely.  However, should 
someone using the .net toolset be able to take this WSDL, automatically 
generate their required proxies, and use them?  I've got a report from a 
user who says their tools either die on this, or report no errors, but 
generate no proxies.