Re: Action item: HTTP binding for accepts header and output Serialization.

Hi Dave.

* David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> [2004-06-23 17:54-0700]
> This serialization format is designed to allow a Web service to send or receive binary data.  The instance data of the input or output is serialized according to the media type of the instance data.  The media type that is expected or allowed on input, and the media type that may or will be sent on output is specified according to the Assigning Media types to binary data in XML.  The sender may specify an HTTP Accept header using the Abstract Data feature.  The Accept header value should be within the set of values defined by the expected Media Type element value.

As per your first two questions:
> - I don't know how to relate the AD/data to the contentType explicitly because the expectedMediatype is buried in the Annotation. I think the relationship between companyPicture expectedMediaType and the AD myDataType is a bit tenous.  
> - Can the outputSerialization be a reference rather than a value?

We could maybe define this feature so that it just sets the
serializations based on the expectedMediaType value.

However, I am not sure how this feature would work with the input
using GET and foo:myDataType in your example, though I have to admit I
don't get what the current one does in this case either.

[..]
> Example requesting an image/gif

As a purely editorial change, as people tend to use examples without
changing them much if at all, I would much prefer to see image/png
used rather than image/gif.

> The following is a WSDL service that returns an image/gif or image/jpeg and allows the client to choose which to receive.
> 
> <definition>
> 
> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>            xmlns:tns="http://example.com/thisexample"
>            xmlns:xmlmime="http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/xmlmime"
>            targetNamespace="http://example.com/thisexample">
> 
> <xs:import namespace="http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/xmlmime"
>     schemaLocation="http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/xmlmime"/>
> 
> 
> <xs:complexType name="Picture">
>    <xs:simpleContent>
>        <xs:extension base="xs:base64Binary" >
>            <xs:attribute ref="xmlmime:contentType" use="optional" />
>        </xs:extension>
>    </xs:simpleContent>
> </xs:complexType>
> 
> <xs:element name="companyPicture" type="tns:Picture" 
>     <xs:annotation>
>         <xs:documentation>This element designates the range of values 
>         that the declared binary type will accept 
>         </xs:documentation>
>         <xs:appInfo>
>            <xmlmime:expectedMediaType>image/jpeg, image/gif</xmlmime:expectedMediaType>

According to the schema definition of expectedMediaType[1], I think
that it should be (making my image/png change too):

  <xmlmime:expectedMediaType>image/jpeg image/png</xmlmime:expectedMediaType>

Regards,

Hugo

  1. http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-media-types/#appendix
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