EncodingStyle attr not properly ns qualified in SOAP response (7.0 beta)

Question

It appears that BEA does not properly qualify the
encodingStyle attribute in its SOAP response message.
Although the document does specify an encodingStyle, the
attribute does not come from the SOAP envelope namespace.
In the captured response message below, encodingStyle
should be env:encodingStyle to be correct.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:13:25 GMT
Server: WebLogic WebLogic Server 7.0 beta Fri Feb 22 10:33:57 PST 2002 166852
Content-Length: 387
Content-Type: text/xml
Connection: Close
<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<env:Header>
</env:Header>
<env:Body>
<m:buyResponse xmlns:m="http://www.bea.com/examples/Trader"
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<result>
<stockSymbol>BEAS</stockSymbol>
<numberTraded>10</numberTraded>
</result>
</m:buyResponse>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

Answer 1

Hi M,
First, I see your point (and agree), from a "pristine" point of view ;-)
But the SOAP spec (or Note, or Comment, or whatever) actually allows this :-)
Here's the exact paragraph:
"A SOAP application SHOULD include the proper SOAP namespace on all elements and
attributes defined by SOAP in messages that it generates. A SOAP application MUST
be able to process SOAP namespaces in messages that it receives. It MUST discard
messages that have incorrect namespaces (see section 4.4) and it MAY process SOAP
messages without SOAP namespaces as though they had the correct SOAP namespaces."
Kind of "Clintonian", if you know what I mean, but it is there. If your SOAP processor
were to discard this message, one would have to assume that MAY is synonymous with
MAY NOT :-)
Is the glass HALF-FULL, or HALF-EMPTY?
Anyway, I agree that the env namespace prefix OUGHT TO BE (like that, lol) added
to the encodingStyle attribute here :-)
Regards,
Mike Wooten
"M Shue" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
It appears that BEA does not properly qualify the
encodingStyle attribute in its SOAP response message.
Although the document does specify an encodingStyle, the
attribute does not come from the SOAP envelope namespace.
In the captured response message below, encodingStyle
should be env:encodingStyle to be correct.
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:13:25 GMT
Server: WebLogic WebLogic Server 7.0 beta Fri Feb 22 10:33:57 PST 2002 166852
Content-Length: 387
Connection: Close
<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<env:Header>
</env:Header>
<env:Body>
<m:buyResponse xmlns:m="http://www.bea.com/examples/Trader"
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<result>
<stockSymbol>BEAS</stockSymbol>
<numberTraded>10</numberTraded>
</result>
</m:buyResponse>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>