Re: Issue: Support for optionality of parts in Messages

FYI: This is covered by the following issue already in the
document:

<issue id="issue-message-parts">
  <head>Should the message part mechanism be extended to support optional 
        parts etc.?</head>
  In WSDL 1.1, a message can only be defined to be a sequence of parts.
  It is not possible to indicate that certain parts may be optional,
  may occur multiple times, etc.? Should we do that? Overlapping with
  XML Schema's mechanisms is an obvious concern.
  <source>Sanjiva Weerawarana</source>
</issue>

Sanjiva.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prasad Yendluri" <pyendluri@webmethods.com>
To: <www-ws-desc@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 7:35 AM
Subject: Issue: Support for optionality of parts in Messages


> After thinking a little more, it seems to me this would be a useful
> addition.
> 
> Usecase: A response message could optionally return one or more
> "attachments".
> 
> We do have an example of having attachments in the MIME binding section
> of the specification (Section 5.11 Example 7) but, there is no way to
> specify those as optional with variable cardinality (minoccurs,
> maxoccurs). The example claims these are optional in the description
> part but, neither the "message" definitions (A 4.1 WSDL schema) nor the
> MIME bindings ( 4.4 MIME binding Schema) permit this.
> 
> Regards, Prasad
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 29 April 2002 15:35:53 UTC