On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Hiranya Jayathilaka <hira...@wso2.com>wrote:
> This solution will take care of the message parsing issue. But the main > problem is Synapse and Axis2 both associating text/xml with SOAP 1.1. > There's a lot of code written based on this assumption. For instance the > parsing issue can be worked around by using something like the message > relay (we do this in API Manager). But still there are certain things that > don't work properly when you send a POX payload with the text/xml content > type. For an example, in API Manager if you send a POX message with the > text/xml, the query parameters on the URL do not get passed to the backend > server, whereas they will get passed if we use application/xml instead. > > This is a very tricky problem to solve. I tried to solve this for API > Manager, but had to give it up considering the time constraints and the > possible stability issues it might introduce. We need to discuss this with > a larger audience before we decide on the final plan. > +1 this is the main reason to postponed this issue in Axis2 side too, Axis2 lived with this issue for many years and need to study impact with large audience first. Thanks ! > > I also just noticed the other mail from Sagara, which explains a proper > solution to this issue from Axis2 end. We need incorporate the same fix > into Synapse where ever we are looking at the content type to differentiate > between SOAP and REST. > > Thanks, > Hiranya > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Dushan Abeyruwan <dus...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Recently we had a few issues [1][2] when invoking REST services via >> ESB REST API when client sends information with the content type TEXT/XML >> (and if BACK END accepts TEXT/XML) so when message receives to ESB if the >> content type is defined TEXT/XML by default it will try to build up SOAP >> envelope, but AFAIK most REST calls are based >> on TEXT/XML so theoretically this kind of messages should be able to handle >> via ESB, so for this as solution I have written a Builder formatter, >> basically I named this as HYBRID message builder /formatter, the idea is >> when client sends simple xml element with via REST (with content type >> TEXT/XML) , the logic is first the hybrid builder checks if the message >> content type defines as TEXT/XML followed by root element containing any >> SOAP element. if not Hybrid builder invokes the Application XML builder >> internally and will build the message and setting up a flag to message >> context thus during the HybridFormatter invocation we can determine that >> the original client request content type and write it to the output pipe, >> >> (did few mock testings with few use cases and worked well) >> >> any suggestions on this >> >> [1] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA-1160 >> [2]https://wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA-1160 >> >> cheers, >> Dushan Abeyruwan >> *Senior Software Engineer* >> *Integration Technologies Team* >> *WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com/* >> *Mobile:(+94)714408632* >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev@wso2.org >> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> > > > -- > Hiranya Jayathilaka > Senior Technical Lead; > WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org > E-mail: hira...@wso2.com; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 > Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@wso2.org > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- Sagara Gunathunga Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com V.P Apache Web Services ; http://ws.apache.org/ Blog ; http://ssagara.blogspot.com
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