Re: An Example Use of RM's MakeConnection

Marc,

Fine for handling request/response I suppose. However, not everything is 
request/response. How does this work when
there is no "response" but rather a need to get messages from the "server" 
to the "client"?

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/chrisferris
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public-ws-addressing-request@w3.org wrote on 10/09/2006 12:26:07 PM:

> Looking at the message flow, I think WS-RM could make more use of 
> wsa:RelatesTo instead of inventing a new anon URI. Here's the same 
> message flow using the WS-A anon URI and making more use of 
> wsa:RelatesTo and @RelationshipType.
> 
> I think this formulation removes the requirement for additional WSRM- 
> specific anon URIs, let me know if I missed anything.
> 
> Marc.
> 
> Scenario: Client sends GetQuote to server unreliably.  Server wants 
> to send GetQuoteResponse using RM so it must sent a CreateSequence 
> before I can send the GetQuoteResponse back.
> 
> Step 1 - Client sends GetQuote to Server
> <soap:Envelope ...>
>   <soap:Header>
>    <wsa:To> http://stockquote.com </wsa:To>
>    <wsa:Action> foo:GetQuote </wsa:Action>
>    <wsa:MessageID> uuid://.../100 </wsa:MessageID>
>    <wsa:ReplyTo>
>     <wsa:Address>http://www.w3.org/.../anonymous</wsa:Address>
>    </wsa:ReplyTo>
>   </soap:Header>
>   <soap:Body>
>    <foo:GetQuote> IBM </foo:GetQuote>
>   </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
> 
> Step 2 - Server sends an RM CreateSequence to the Client using the 
> only means it has available - the transport backchannel.
> <soap:Envelope ...>
>   <soap:Header>
>    <wsa:To>http://www.w3.org/.../anonymous</wsa:To>
>    <wsa:Action> http://...wsrm/CreateSequence </wsa:Action>
>    <wsa:MessageID> uuid://.../101 </wsa:MessageID>
>    <wsa:RelatesTo RelationshipType="http://...wsrm/InitReliable">
>      uuid://.../100
>    </wsa:RelatesTo>
>    <wsa:ReplyTo>
>     <wsa:Address> http://stockquote.com </wsa:Address>
>    </wsa:ReplyTo>
>   </soap:Header>
>   <soap:Body>
>    <wsrm:CreateSequence> ... </wsrm:CreateSequence>
>   </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
> 
> Notice the use of RelatesTo with a WSRM-specific @RelationshipType to 
> indicate that this message is a WSRM-specific response to the initial 
> request.
> 
> Step 3 - Client sends a CreateSequenceResponse to wsa:ReplyTo
> <soap:Envelope ...>
>   <soap:Header>
>    <wsa:To> http://stockquote.com </wsa:To>
>    <wsa:Action> http://...wsrm/CreateSequenceResponse </wsa:Action>
>    <wsa:RelatesTo> uuid://.../101 </wsa:RelatesTo>
>   </soap:Header>
>   <soap:Body>
>    <wsrm:CreateSequenceResponse> ... </wsrm:CreateSequenceResponse>
>   </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
> 
> Step 4 - Having not received the GetQuoteResponse, the Client uses 
> MakeConnection to allow it to flow back
> <soap:Envelope ...>
>   <soap:Header>
>    <wsa:To> http://stockquote.com </wsa:To>
>    <wsa:Action> http://...wsrm/MakeConnection </wsa:Action>
>    <wsa:ReplyTo>
>     <wsa:Address>http://www.w3.org/.../anonymous</wsa:Address>
>    </wsa:ReplyTo>
>    <wsa:RelatesTo RelationshipType="http://...wsrm/InitialRequest">
>      uuid://.../100
>    </wsa:RelatesTo>
>   </soap:Header>
>   <soap:Body>
>    <wsrm:MakeConnection>
>    </wsrm:MakeConnection>
>   </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
> 
> Notice the use of the wsa:RelatesTo with a WSRM-specific 
> @RelationshipType to indicate that this message is requesting a 
> response to the initial request message.
> 
> Step 5 - Server uses the backchannel to let the GetQuoteResponse flow 
> back to the Client
> <soap:Envelope ...>
>   <soap:Header>
>    <wsa:To>http://www.w3.org/.../anonymous</wsa:To>
>    <wsa:Action> foo://GetQuoteResponse </wsa:Action>
>    <wsa:RelatesTo> uuid://.../100 </wsa:RelatesTo>
>    <wsrm:Sequence> ... </wsrm:Sequence>
>   </soap:Header>
>   <soap:Body>
>    <foo:GetQuoteResponse> 139.0 </foo:GetQuoteResponse>
>   </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
> 
> Notice the wsa:RelatesTo points to the GetQuote request message and 
> it is sent using RM (the Sequence header), and that the SOAP Envelope 
> looks exactly like it would if it had been sent on the original 
> transport backchannel - meaning, the wsa:To is derived from the 
> wsa:ReplyTo from the GetQuote request message not the MakeConnection.
> 
> ---
> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
> Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
> 
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