FW: Semantics of wsdl:import

Thanks for your comment.  The WS Description Working Group tracked this
issue as a CR012 [1].  The text you referred to has since changed and
the Working Group believes it better addresses your concern.  This
resolution is reflected in the latest draft [2].

 


Unless you let us know otherwise by 13 April, we will assume you agree
with the resolution of this issue.

 

[1] http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/5/cr-issues/#CR012 

[2]
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2002/ws/desc/wsdl20/wsdl20.html?cont
ent-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#imports

 

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From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Ramkumar Menon
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:57 AM
To: Jacek Kopecky
Cc: www-ws-desc@w3.org
Subject: Re: Semantics of wsdl:import

 

Hi Jacek,

 

Thanks.

I am attaching the snippet from section 5.1.2 from WS-I Basic Profile
1.0

R2001 A DESCRIPTION MUST only use the WSDL "import" statement to import
another WSDL description. 

R2002 To import XML Schema Definitions, a DESCRIPTION MUST use the XML
Schema "import" statement. 

R2003 A DESCRIPTION MUST use the XML Schema "import" statement only
within the xsd:schema element of the types section. 

 

Moreover, the section 4.1 in WSDL 2.0 2.0 Part 1 [Core Language] makes a
clear statement regarding the point about "Including descriptions". See
below.

"A location attribute information item is of type xs:anyURI . Its actual
value is the location of some information about the namespace identified
by the targetNamespace attribute information item of the containing
description element information item.It is an error if the IRI indicated
by location does not resolve to a WSDL 2.0 document."

 

If I am right, it would be necessary to make a similar and explicit
statement on  "import descriptions".[Section 4.2]

 

thanks,

Menon

 

On 2/14/06, Jacek Kopecky <jacek.kopecky@deri.org> wrote: 

Hi Menon,

in WSDL 1.1, AFAIK, it was common practice to import schemas using
wsdl:import, even use this to import schemas from within WSDL files. I 
don't know how the Basic Profile regulates this, if at all; from the
point of view of common practice, the code snippet below is correct.

WSDL 2.0 talks about importing schemas in the section on types (section 
3), and in section 4.2.2 it says that wsdl:import location attribute
gives a hint about where a WSDL 2.0 document can be found for this
import. So I believe WSDL 2.0 is clear enough about how the various
imports are to be done. 

There may be a problem that for people coming from WSDL 1.1, this
information is not spelled out clearly enough; this may be an editorial
issue which the WG could consider.

Best regards,

Jacek

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 16:50 +0530, Ramkumar Menon wrote:
> Hi Jacek,
>
> Thanks ! I completely agree with you.
> I knew this point, but I have seen folks specify schemas as top level
> imports, which is incorrect, but is pardoned by most API 
> representations for WSDL, like JSR 110.[WSDL4J]
>
> After the User models a top level XSD import, he could go ahead and
> treat the imported artifact as a blackbox and treat it the way he/she
> wishes to.
> Let me take the freedom of adding a code snippet of an incorrect usage
> of imports in a JSR 110 implementation.
> List imports = definition.getImports();
> Import importedXSD = (Import)imports.get(0); 
> String xsdLocation = importedXSD.getLocationURI();
> //use W3C  DOM APIs to parse the XSD and retrieve the information.
> Document xsdDoc = domParser.parse(new InputStream(xsdLocation));
> This is obviously a hackish way to bypass the specification. 
> There are two options.
> 1) Explicitly have a mention in the specification that <wsdl:import>
> can only be used to import WSDL descriptions, and is an error
> otherwise.
> 2) The plain vanilla attribute name "location" on the <import> could 
> possibly be misleading -it does not indicate what all can be imported
> into the wsdl description. Need to think of an alternative to this
> attribute naming- lets say "wsdlLocation".
> 
> rgds,
> Menon






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