Re: Proposal for multi-reference support in MTOM

On 28 Nov 2003, at 10:55, Jacek Kopecky wrote:
> What you're proposing is that your application know about a SOAP 
> binding
> optimization and rely on it.

No, I'm proposing that in addition to the 'send this stuff as binary 
instead of base64' optimization there's an additional optimization: 
'these two chunks of base64 data are the same - just send one copy'.


> I suggest that you extract the relevant
> part of the optimization - called referencing - and incorporate it into
> your application. If you're looking for a standard in this area, 
> there's
> XML Linking [1].

Thanks for the 'helpful' reference.

>  8-) I don't think the Representation header is
> necessarily what you want.
>
> I see how the referencing part could be folded into the binding layer,
> possibly eliminating some cases of references to other references on 
> the
> wire, but in doing so you limit your application to one optimization
> technique and mandate that optimization (a mandatory optimization 
> sounds
> totally wrong). I think we should separate the concerns here into
> different layers.
>
The optimization isn't mandated, if you want to ignore the hint and 
send two or more copies of the data then nothing will break - it will 
just be less efficient.

Marc.

>
> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 21:47, Marc Hadley wrote:
>> Here's a proposal for an extension to the current MTOM formulation to
>> offer better support for multiple inclusion of the same data. The
>> proposed extension  has the following properties:
>>
>> - Preserves MTOM semantics of attachment inclusion in SOAP message
>> infoset
>> - Supports existing 'Include' and 'Representation' semantics, use of
>> extension is optional
>> - Supports multiple inclusion of attachments without replication of
>> data in the serialized form
>> - Multiply included data replicated in message infoset, signatures 
>> over
>> elements containing such data include attachment data rather than a
>> reference to the data as woud be the case when using a Representation
>> approach.
>>
>>
>> Infoset Form
>> ============
>>
>> This section shows via an example the infoset of a message after the
>> binding has performed the MTOM deserialization (described later). XML
>> 1.0 is used as the most convenient syntax to express the infoset but
>> this should be considered a purely abtract model of the message
>> content.
>>
>> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="..." xmlns:mtom="...">
>>    <env:Body>
>>      <app:Stuff xmlns:app="...">
>>        <app:Thing1 mtom:ContentID="someURI">
>>          some base64 text
>>        </app:Thing1>
>>        <app:Thing2 mtom:ContentID="someURI">
>>          some base64 text
>>        </app:Thing2>
>>        <app:Thing3>
>>          some base64 text
>>        </app:Thing3>
>>      </app:Stuff>
>>    </env:Body>
>> </env:Envelope>
>>
>> Note that the same base64 data is included as the content of the 
>> Thing1
>> and Thing2 EIIs, this is indicated by the value of the mtom:ContentID
>> attribute being the same for both. Thing3 has no mtom:ContentID
>> indicating that the optional multi-reference extension is not being
>> used for the content of this EII.
>>
>>
>> Optimized (MIME) Wire Form
>> ==========================
>>
>> This section shows via an example the serialized form of a message
>> using the MIME based MTOM.
>>
>> Content-type: multipart/related; boundary="someBoundaryString"
>>
>> --someBoundaryString
>> Content-Type: application/soap+xml
>>
>> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="..." xmlns:mtom="...">
>>    <env:Body>
>>      <app:Stuff xmlns:app="...">
>>        <app:Thing1 mtom:ContentID="someURI">
>>          <mtom:Include href="someURI">
>>          <!-- depending on how mtom:ContentID is defined, the
>> Include/@href may be redundant -->
>>        </app:Thing1>
>>        <app:Thing2 mtom:ContentID="someURI">
>>          <mtom:Include href="someURI">
>>        </app:Thing2>
>>        <app:Thing3>
>>          <mtom:Include href="someOtherURI">
>>        </app:Thing3>
>>      </app:Stuff>
>>    </env:Body>
>> </env:Envelope>
>>
>> --someBoundaryString
>> Content-Type: image/png
>> Content-ID: someURI
>>
>> binary picture data
>>
>> --someBoundaryString
>> Content-Type: image/png
>> Content-ID: someOtherURI
>>
>> binary picture data
>>
>> --someBoundaryString--
>>
>>
>> Schema Types
>> ============
>>
>> <complexType name="OptimizationCandidate">
>>    <simpleContent>
>>      <extension base="xsd:base64Binary">
>>        <attribute name="ContentID" type="xsd:anyURI"/>
>>        <attribute name="MediaType" type="xsd:string"/>
>>        <!-- other attributes we define -->
>>      </extension>
>>    </simpleContent>
>> </complexType>
>>
>> Terminology
>> ===========
>>
>> The following terminology is used in the description of the
>> serialization and deserialization algorithms:
>>
>> Optimization candidate:
>>    EII of type xsd:base64 or mtom:OptimizationCandidate.
>>
>> Matching MIME part:
>>    MIME part whose content-id and/or content-location headers (TBD
>> specify exact matching criteria) match an
>> OptimizationCandidate/@ContentID.
>>
>> Content:
>>    base64Binary child CIIs of an optimization candidate (excludes AII
>> children)
>>
>>
>> Infoset to Wire Serialization
>> =============================
>>
>> For each optimization candidate in the SOAP message
>>      - if no matching MIME part exists then create a matching MIME 
>> part
>> from the optimization candidate's decoded content and AIIs
>>      - replace the content of the optimization candidate with a child
>> mtom:Include EII
>>
>>
>> Wire to Infoset Deserialization
>> ===============================
>>
>> For each mtom:Include EII
>>      - replace the mtom:Include EII with base64 encoded attachment
>> content
>>
>> --
>> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
>> Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.
>
>
--
Marc Hadley <marc.hadley@sun.com>
Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.