- From: Jacek Kopecky <jacek@systinet.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:19:03 +0100 (CET)
- To: Martin Gudgin <marting@develop.com>
- cc: XML Protocol Discussion <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Gudge,
it's unclear to me what makes you think that specifying an other
encoding (of our data model) is prohibited on the RPC request or
response structs.
Kind regards,
Jacek Kopecky
Senior Architect, Systinet (formerly Idoox)
http://www.systinet.com/
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Martin Gudgin wrote:
> In the editors copy of Part 2[1], section 4.1[2] states;
>
> 'As noted above, RPC invocation and response structs can be encoded
> according to the rules in 3 SOAP Encoding, or other encodings can be
> specified using the encodingStyle attribute'
>
> While I grant that strictly speaking for each parameter accessor I could use
> a different encoding, the encoding of the procedure/method signature is, by
> definition, the same as Section 3[3] encoding. For example, given the
> following COM IDL method signature
>
> void Add ( [in] long x, [in] long y, [out] long* sum );
>
> I could not encode the request as;
>
> <Add x='10' y='20' xmlns:soap='http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope'
> soap:encodingStyle='urn:example-org:attrenc' />
>
> in fact, I could ONLY encode the request as;
>
> <Add xmlns:soap='http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope'
> soap:encodingStyle='http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding' >
> <X>10</x>
> <y>20</y>
> </Add>
>
> Given the following IDL
>
> struct Point
> {
> long x,y;
> }
>
> void Add ( [in] struct Point pt1,
> [in] struct Point pt2,
> [out] struct Point* ptret );
>
> I *could* encode each point using something other than section 3;
>
> <Add xmlns:soap='http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope'
> soap:encodingStyle='http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding' >
> <pt1 x='10' y='20' soap:encoding='urn:example-org:attrenc' />
> <pt2 y='10' x='20' soap:encoding='urn:example-org:attrenc' />
> </Add>
>
> but the request element is always serialized according to Section 3.
>
> Gudge
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/10/11/soap12-part2.xml
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/10/11/soap12-part2.xml#IDAGG5CF
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/10/11/soap12-part2.xml#soapenc
>
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