Hi,
Even I had the doubt regarding why do we need encoding style? The
encoding style is used on the server side to serialize and deserialize
XML to corresponding programming language (java,c++, etc) instances.
But the main question is why should client be aware of this? If server
is using an encoding style "my_cpp_encoding" and java client knows how
to serialize and deserialize its data to XML (probably using encoding
style "my_java_encoding"), then specifying "my_cpp_encoding" in the SOAP
request looks stupid from client's point of view, isn't it? IMHO
encoding style is *to do with implementation on server side* (and should
not be part of request/response data) and client should not be asked to
send that info.
Let's say I have a java application which provides SOAP interface and
has mapping of xml elements to java classes (either implicitly like XML
Java databinding or stored somewhere on server side in some .properties
file), then a VB client need not send any encoding stuff right?
Any comments???
regards,
Gopinath .M.R.
Sr.Product Engineer,
Aztec software
Nicolas Fonrose wrote:
>
>
> XML is just a meta-language, not a language. You can't
> serializable anything in "XML". You have to choose what
> is called an "XML application" or "XML language" or "XML encoding"
> to serialiaze your data.
>
> There are numerous languages you can choose from to do this and
> this is what the "encoding-style" is for. It tells the receiver
> of the SOAP message what encoding was used.
>
> SOAP comes with a default SOAP-encoding but you can use any other
> encoding (a custom one for example).
>
> Nicolas
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: Gaurav
> A: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 30/05/01 14:52
> Objet: Why do we need encoding-style?
>
> Hi all,
>
> What exactly is meant by "encoding-style" attribute in SOAP message. I
> read that "encoding-style" value informs the server of the encoding
> style used to encode -- i.e., serialize -- the method. But dont we use
> XML to serialize the method in SOAP?? So why would we use an
> encoding-style attribute? Does anybody have any example which shows
> utility of this attribute in a practical scenario?
>
> Thnaks and regards,
> Gaurav
>
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