- From: David Hull <dmh@tibco.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:49:02 -0400
- To: "public-ws-addressing@w3.org" <public-ws-addressing@w3.org>
- Message-id: <433D6C7E.2070002@tibco.com>
*Description*: It is not clear under what circumstances, if any, the [action] property must be used in conjunction with the wsaw:action attribute in the WSDL to do dispatch. Everyone knows what dispatching off of action means, but it doesn't seem to be spelled out anywhere in our binding. *Justification*: In the core, we define a mandatory [action] property. In the WSDL binding, we define a way of associating a WSA [action] with each message in an operation, including a defaulting rule if none is explicitly present. WSDL says (at least we say WSDL says :-) that ensuring that there is enough information in a message to distinguish which operation it is associated with is best practice. What seems to be missing is any explicit mention of using [action] for dispatch, something along the lines of "If an operation has a given [action] associated with it, and a message comes in with that [action], the processor MUST invoke that operation (assuming there are no other errors)." This would only be applicable when UsingAddressing is present, or perhaps only when UsingAddressing is present with wsdl:required true. *Target:* WSDL Binding *Proposal: *Add text to section 4 of the WSDL document saying one of: * wsaw:Action is purely advisory for dispatch. Dispatch off of it or not as you like. * Dispatching off of wsaw:Action is mandatory whenever wsaw:UsingAddressing is present. * Dispatching off of wsaw:Action is mandatory whenever wsaw:UsingAddressing is present and wsdl:required is true. If either of the last two is adopted, it is effectively an error to associate the same action with different operations on the same endpoint, and we should say this somewhere, either with a MUST NOT or a SHOULD NOT. We may want to say that wsaw:Action SHOULD be unique in any case.
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