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From: Ravi Kumar <rkumar@borland.com>
Subject: Re: AXIS chat log for 9 October, 2001
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Any final resolution on the command line options for Wsdl2Java?

Leave the --package switch ??
Add additional mapings to the command line?
Augment with a file input or not?

Rgds
Ravi


Tom Jordahl wrote:

> Geeze - leave you guys alone for 2 days and look what happens... :-)
>
> Let me prefix this by saying I haven't read through the chat log yet.
>
> -1 on the removal of the --package switch.  I believe this is a reasonable
> switch that will be useful to the 80-90% of the users who don't know much
> about namespaces, but do know where they want the emitted files from
> Wsdl2java to go in their client application.  Other tools (GLUE,
> SilverStream, etc) also use a similar switch.
>
> I am also not in favor of our utility having a config file (!!) for
> generating results.  This seems complicated (what's the file format?), error
> prone (where does the file live?), and hard to document (I need a comfit
> file for what exactly?).
>
> Are we keeping in mind the Use Case for Wsdl2java?  I am writing an
> application that does many things, one of which is to use a web service.  I
> get the WSDL for the service, run the tool on it, and incorporate that code
> in to my code base.  I can use the web service via the stub, I include
> axis.jar in my classpath, then I go on with my coding.  Do I really want to
> map namespace's here?  Am I missing a use case that is going to be more
> common?
>
> This is just my opinion, I am probably missing the point... :-)
>
> --
> Tom Jordahl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Butek [mailto:butek@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 11:57 AM
> To: axis-dev@xml.apache.org
> Subject: Re: AXIS chat log for 9 October, 2001
>
> So we've agreed to:
> 1.  remove --package
> 2.  add some sort of command line argument for the namespace-to-package
> mappings
> 3.  look for a mapping properties file
> 4.  2 takes precedence over 3
>
> So now we have to decide
> 2.  What does the command line argument look like?  How about
>     --NStoPkg <ns0> <pkg0> -N <ns1> <pkg1> ... -N <nsN> <pkgN>
> 3.  What's the name of this file?  wsdl2java.mapping.properties?  Are the
> pairs in the file <namespace>=<package>?  What happens if the namespace
> string contains "=" or whitespace?  Does java.util.Properties handle it?
> Maybe the pairs should be <package>=<namespace>?
>
> About your last point, Berin, I disagree with you.  I believe, via imports,
> you can have multiple WSDL definitions and, therefore, multiple namespaces
> for the WSDL things in the definitions.  Here's an example from section
> 2.1.2 of the WSDL spec.  The namespace for the service and the binding is
> "http://example.com/stockquote/service" and the namespace for the portType
> is "http://example.com/stockquote/definitions".  WSDL4J supports this.
>
> http://example.com/stockquote/stockquote.xsd
>
>            <?xml version="1.0"?>
>            <schema targetNamespace="http://example.com/stockquote/schemas"
>                   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">
>
>                <element name="TradePriceRequest">
>                    <complexType>
>                        <all>
>                            <element name="tickerSymbol" type="string"/>
>                        </all>
>                    </complexType>
>                </element>
>                <element name="TradePrice">
>                    <complexType>
>                        <all>
>                            <element name="price" type="float"/>
>                        </all>
>                    </complexType>
>                </element>
>            </schema>
>
>        http://example.com/stockquote/stockquote.wsdl
>
>            <?xml version="1.0"?>
>            <definitions name="StockQuote"
>
>            targetNamespace="http://example.com/stockquote/definitions"
>                      xmlns:tns="http://example.com/stockquote/definitions"
>                      xmlns:xsd1="http://example.com/stockquote/schemas"
>                      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
>                      xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
>
>               <import namespace="http://example.com/stockquote/schemas"
>                       location
> ="http://example.com/stockquote/stockquote.xsd"/>
>
>                <message name="GetLastTradePriceInput">
>                    <part name="body" element="xsd1:TradePriceRequest"/>
>                </message>
>
>                <message name="GetLastTradePriceOutput">
>                    <part name="body" element="xsd1:TradePrice"/>
>                </message>
>
>                <portType name="StockQuotePortType">
>                    <operation name="GetLastTradePrice">
>                       <input message="tns:GetLastTradePriceInput"/>
>                       <output message="tns:GetLastTradePriceOutput"/>
>                    </operation>
>                </portType>
>            </definitions>
>
>        http://example.com/stockquote/stockquoteservice.wsdl
>
>            <?xml version="1.0"?>
>            <definitions name="StockQuote"
>
>            targetNamespace="http://example.com/stockquote/service"
>                      xmlns:tns="http://example.com/stockquote/service"
>                      xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
>                      xmlns:defs="http://example.com/stockquote/definitions"
>                      xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
>
>               <import namespace="http://example.com/stockquote/definitions"
>                       location
> ="http://example.com/stockquote/stockquote.wsdl"/>
>
>                <binding name="StockQuoteSoapBinding" type
> ="defs:StockQuotePortType">
>                    <soap:binding style="document" transport
> ="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
>                    <operation name="GetLastTradePrice">
>                       <soap:operation soapAction
> ="http://example.com/GetLastTradePrice"/>
>                       <input>
>                           <soap:body use="literal"/>
>                       </input>
>                       <output>
>                           <soap:body use="literal"/>
>                       </output>
>                    </operation>
>                </binding>
>
>                <service name="StockQuoteService">
>                    <documentation>My first service</documentation>
>                    <port name="StockQuotePort" binding
> ="tns:StockQuoteBinding">
>                       <soap:address location
> ="http://example.com/stockquote"/>
>                    </port>
>                </service>
>            </definitions>
>
> Russell Butek
> butek@us.ibm.com
>
> Berin Loritsch <bloritsch@apache.org> on 10/10/2001 10:29:02 AM
>
> Please respond to axis-dev@xml.apache.org
>
> To:   axis-dev@xml.apache.org
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: AXIS chat log for 9 October, 2001
>
> Russell Butek wrote:
> >
> > Berin wrote:
> > > At the end of the meeting--about the time it looked like everyone got
> > > kicked off, I proposed that we drop the support for declaring the
> > multiple
> > > namespace mappings on the command line and just do it in the file.
> > >
> >
> > I'm torn, here.  If the user only has one namespace, it'll be a real pain
> > to force them to create a properties file just for that one namespace.
> On
> > the other hand, we're already in danger of going overboard with Wsdl2java
> > arguments.
> >
> > We COULD do the following:
> >
> > 1.  Provide the -N flag (in whatever form we choose).
> > 2.  Make Wsdl2java look for a mapping properties file in the current
> > directory and, if it exists, use it.
> > 3.  If both the file and the -N are used, -N takes precedence over the
> > file.  In other words, if x=y exists in the file and x=z exists in the -N
> > argument, then the mapping will be x=z.
>
> This is precisely the approach that Cocoon uses for its CLI.  It is a
> pretty standard convention and I am for it.
>
> > > PS
> > > If you don't want to handcode the parsing for multiple namespace
> > mappings,
> > > the CLIUtil will allow you to do the following:
> > >
> > > -N<ns0>=<pkg0> -N<ns1>=<pkg1> ... -N<nsN>=<pkgN>
> > >
> > > This allows the CLI utility to give you multiple parameters that it
> > parses.
> > > For 1 or 2 mappings, doing it on the command line is fine.  For more
> than
> > > that, I would probably opt for the file approach.
> > >
> > > As to the --package parameter that would be for everything in the
> target
> > > namespace (<wsdl:definitions targetnamespace="..." .../>).  Or, we drop
> > > it completely and use the mapping approach above exclusively.
> >
> > There can be more than one wsdl:definitions targetNamespace if you're
> > importing WSDL from WSDL.  So what would --package refer to?  Only the
> > targetNamespace of the immediate WSDL's definition?  That's starting to
> > sound a bit contrived, that's why I favor removing it if we come up with
> > another means of providing a namespace->package mapping.  (That and the
> > fact that we're getting argument-heavy.)
>
> Sounds good.
>
> BTW, it was my understanding that WSDL imports were only to have more
> information
> for the current definitions tag.  The concept being that implementation
> details
> embedded in the WSDL document (i.e. stuff not necessary for a client to use
> the
> service) can be placed in a separate file.
>
> If you are using XInclude as the mechanism for for WSDL imports, the
> resulting
> XML document MUST conform to WSDL markup.  I didn't think it was possible
> to
> embed a "definitions" element inside another one.  In fact, I would argue
> the
> XInclude processing should be done before WSDL4J gets a hold of the content
> (either
> through a SAX stream [easier to do XInclude] or through finding all the
> elements
> in a nodelist).
>
> XInclude was never meant to change the schema.  The idea is to keep
> portions of
> XML in a separate file so they can be incorporated into one whole document.
> It
> does allow you to declare the namespace and prefix of the embedded document
> so
> that it makes sense.
>
> By enforcing this approach, we simplify our lives, and force users to write
> legal
> WSDL docs.