> > Remember that the creation/sending of the partial response and the
> > rebase on the decoupled response endpoint is already driven from
> > within the WS-A layer. No matter how we slice the dice the
> API used to
> > achieve this, we still need to interact with the transport,
> either by
> > necessity (e.g. as only the transport knows that the
> partial response
> > should have a "202 Accepted" status in the HTTP case), or for
> > convenience (e.g. as the transport knows what
> ConduitInitiator to use
> > to create the decoupled backchannel conduit, whereas WS-A
> would need
> > to do some figuring to relate a HTTP Destination to a HTTP
> ConduitInitiator).
>
>
> So your concern is putting the HTTP 202 accepted on the
> partial response?
> Other than that, the code in JettyHTTPDestination is a pretty
> simple if
> statement:
>
> if (replyToEPR == null) {
> return httpBackChannel;
> else {
> if (partialResponse != null) return httpBackChannel;
> else return newConduit(replyToEPR);
> }
>
> Seeing that the HTTP partial response stuff is an RM
> "feature" anyway which is *specific* to HTTP, whats the harm
> in putting the message.put(RESPONSE_CODE,
> HTTP_ACCEPTED) in RM code? We've already coded in a HTTP
> specific feature into RM (partial responses), so we might as
> well finish it off and put in the HTTP_ACCEPTED code there too IMO.
No, No, and thrice No!
First, WS-RM is *not* specific to HTTP.
In theory it could run over many other transports, e.g. SMTP, or FTP, or some
simple TCP-based protocol we cook up ourselves (à la the SonicMQ
"tcp://localhost:2506" approach).
At least that was the intention of the spec writers ... to quote from the WS-RM
spec abstract: "The protocol is described in this specification in a
**transport-independent** manner allowing it to be implemented using different
network technologies."
So our RM implementation should not be explicitly tied to HTTP by setting the
response code directly to 202. In any transport where the synchronous
back-channel worked differently, this would obviously be inappropriate. Hence
my argument that this detail is best kept encapsulated within the transport.
Even if in practice HTTP is likely to be the only the transport that WS-RM is
deployed over, it would be just silly to burn a restriction to HTTP right into
the WS-RM code.
Second, the concept of a partial response is not necessarily specific to HTTP
... it could be modeled in any transport with a synchronous back-channel.
Finally, your pseudo-code summary of the JettyHTTPDestination.getBackChannel()
logic glosses over an important point from my previous mail ... creating the
decoupled back-channel is not done via:
return new Conduit(replyToEPR);
rather its more like:
return myHTTPConduitInitiator.getConduit(endpointInfo, replyToEPR);
It trivial for the JettyHTTPDestination to have a reference to the appropriate
ConduitInitiator in order to create this Conduit. Not so for the WS-A or WS-RM
layers.
/Eoghan
