On Nov 27, 2007 5:34 PM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My understanding is that this operation provides look-up capability in an
> installed contribution. For example, if you want to find a WSDL portType
> based on the QName in contribution A, the call will be:
>
> QName wsdlPortType = new QName("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/";,
> "PortType"); // The symbol space which differentiates XML artifacts, such
> as
> WSDL PortType, WSDL Binding or BPEL process
> QName portTypeName = new QName("http://ns1/";, "StockQuote");
> javax.wsdl.PortType portType =
> domain.getDefinitionByQName("http://contributions/A";, wsdlPortType,
> portTypeName);
>
> Thanks,
> Raymond
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Laws" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "tuscany-dev" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:06 AM
> Subject: getQNameDefinition?
>
>
> > I'm looking at the getQNameDefinition method which is described in the
> > assembly spec but I don't have a specific scenario describing how it
> works
> > or what it's for. It would seem to be saying that parts of the domain
> > model
> > should be available based on QName but I don't understand why it uses a
> > Contribution URI as a context, what the "supplied symbol space" is for
> and
> > what the return type is expected to be. I believe we are able to write
> out
> > the model to XML for any composite so if we want to support this
> function
> > I
> > would suggest we do that to start with.
> >
> > Anyone have any background on this function?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Simon
> >
>
>
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> Thanks for that Raymond. That's a bit clearer. So it's the sort of
operation we could use to allow people to inspect the details of installed
contributions through some management interface.
Regards
Simon
