Keith, Can it wait till we actually decide to do JAX-RS? Why do we need it now in other words, is there an effort to enhance WSDL2Java more to handle these situations?
thanks, dims On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:07 PM, keith chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me clarify the need for multiple MR's. If we think of codegen, as of now > Axis2 generates the serverside code based on the portType of a WSDL (It does > not take the binding into consideration). Imaging a user has a WSDL such > that the response SOAP message should have a custom SOAP header when the > request is SOAP 1.1 or 1.2 and a custom http header when the request is > REST. > > Now axis2 codegen cannot handle the above scenario. > > Now the only way to do this as of now is to write a module and then do the > checks within that module and add these headers, but these are really > binding details of a service and the AxisBinding hierarchy contains these > details and it should have been the responsibility of the MessageReceiver to > do this. That means we have a MR per binding or a single MR with a lot of if > conditions (I prefer having a MR per binding). > > This is where the need for multiple MR's come in. > > Glen/Deepal I agree that taking parts off the path/query/body and binding > the SOAP infoset is part of the builder but imaging this situation. Think of > having JAX-RS support in Axis2. JAX-RS allows users to annotate a parameter > saying that its a http header. Now the cleanest way to handle this is to > have multiple MR's, where the MR is fully aware of how to get this parameter > that the service needs. This cannot be done at the builder level cause the > builders work according to the schema of an incoming message (the fact that > this parameter is an http header is not described in schema, but it is > available in the axisBinding hierarchy). > > Do you see its need now? > > Thanks, > Keith. > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Glen Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> The job of the MessageReceiver is to take a "normalized" message (i.e. >> something that looks like SOAP) and "do some valid work" with it - so this >> might mean mapping to a Java method and databinding, or calling out to a >> piece of hardware, or handing the contents of the body to a cached instance >> of a particular class. It's the job of the earlier parts of the system - >> the transport code, the Builder, etc - to map the real wire message to the >> normalized form. >> >> If we're using the MessageReceiver to do things like pull data from query >> parameters, then I put forth that we've designed that system incorrectly, >> and should fix it. Some earlier chunk of code should do this. >> >> Thanks, >> --Glen >> >> Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: >>> >>> Deepal, the REST "deserialization" requires one to know the binding to >>> know where to pull stuff from (query params, payload etc.). See WSDL 2.0 >>> HTTP binding to understand how that works. >>> >>> So that has to happen post-dispatch. >>> >>> Sanjiva. >>> >>> Deepal jayasinghe wrote: >>>>> >>>>> It is possible that a single POJO (for example) can offer both a >>>>> RESTful interface and a normal SOAP interface. In fact, that can >>>>> happen by having both JAX-RS and JAX-WS annotations on the same pojo. >>>> >>>> Well even without having those annotation we can expose a POJO as a SOAP >>>> and REST. I mean REST and SOAP just the wire format , internally what >>>> happen is everything get converted into SOAP and at the end POJO class >>>> receive a SOAP message. >>>>> >>>>> We currently can't handle that because the message receiver is >>>>> associated with the AxisOperation and not BindingOperation. IMO that >>>>> was a mistake .. >>>> >>>> Well no , because BindingOperation introduced after the AxisOperation :) >>>> . >>>>> >>>>> So what we talked about was to introduce the ability to set the MR on >>>>> the binding operation but to keep the ability to set it on the >>>>> operation itself. That allows us to be totally backwards compatible >>>>> but it solve the problem for wanting both a RESTful and a WS-* binding >>>>> for the same operation for example. >>>> >>>> I can not still understand why we need new MR , because at the core what >>>> we use is SOAP not anything else , and at the end I mean at the >>>> Transport sender level we serialize that to REST or SOAP. Which is done >>>> by Message formatters. >>>> >>>> -Deepal >>>>> >>>>> Thoughts? >>>>> >>>>> Sanjiva. >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > -- > Keith Chapman > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2 Inc. > Oxygenating the Web Service Platform. > http://wso2.org/ > > blog: http://www.keith-chapman.org > -- Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]