Thanks Dino. The link was quite useful, pin-point precise to the doubts that crawled into my mind reading the wsdl1.1 spec. Well, if I was worrying abt interop, I better should have seen WSI-BP in the first place. But thanks a lot for the link.
@Tom Yeah! just had a look at WSI-BP. Thanks for the reply. Jaya On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 05:30:40 -0800, Dino Chiesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WS-I BP1.1 advises against the guidance of WSDL 1.1 spec, on the point > of arrays. > > Go to http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.1-2004-08-24.html > And search for soapenc:Array (section 4.3.3) : > > *** Begin Excerpt *** > The recommendations in WSDL 1.1 Section 2.2 for declaration of array > types have been interpreted in various ways, leading to interoperability > problems. Further, there are other clearer ways to declare arrays. > > R2110 In a DESCRIPTION, declarations MUST NOT extend or restrict the > soapenc:Array type. > > R2111 In a DESCRIPTION, declarations MUST NOT use wsdl:arrayType > attribute in the type declaration. > > R2112 In a DESCRIPTION, elements SHOULD NOT be named using the > convention ArrayOfXXX. > > R2113 An ENVELOPE MUST NOT include the soapenc:arrayType attribute. > > *** End Excerpt *** > > AXIS seems to comply with the WS-I BP1.1 recommendation. > > -Dino > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jayachandra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 3:28 AM > To: axis-user@ws.apache.org; axis-dev@ws.apache.org > Subject: WSDL generation > > Trying to analyse some problem, I had to refer to wsdl 1.1 spec. There > under the 'Types' section [http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_types , 3rd bullet > point], there is this mention. > > ** Begin of Excerpt ** > Array types should extend the Array type defined in the SOAP v1.1 > encoding schema (http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/) > (regardless of whether the resulting form actually uses the encoding > specified in Section 5 of the SOAP v1.1 document). Use the name > ArrayOfXXX for array types (where XXX is the type of the items in the > array). The type of the items in the array and the array dimensions are > specified by using a default value for the soapenc:arrayType attribute. > At the time of this writing, the XSD specification does not have a > mechanism for specifying the default value of an attribute which > contains a QName value. To overcome this limitation, WSDL introduces > the arrayType attribute (from namespace > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/) which has the semantic of providing > the default value. If XSD is revised to support this functionality, the > revised mechanism SHOULD be used in favor of the arrayType attribute > defined by WSDL. > ** End of Excerpt ** > > So does this mean even in DOCUMENT/LITERAL and WRAPPED/LITERAL kind of > wsdl we should have for an array type (e.g: public Point[] myPoints;) a > wsdl that reads as > > <complexType name="ArrayOfPoint"> > <complexContent> > <restriction base="soapenc:Array"> > <attribute ref="soapenc:arrayType" > wsdl:arrayType="impl:Point[]"/> > </restriction> > </complexContent> > </complexType> > > Currently in axis we get a wsdl fragment that looks like > > <complexType name="ArrayOfPoint"> > <sequence> > <element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" name="item" > type="impl:Point"/> > </sequence> > </complexType> > > Which one is correct? > Any insight into this issue will be very much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > Jaya > -- -- Jaya
