soap:header and soap:headerfault

[Pedro Salazar <pe...@ptinovacao.pt>]

Greetings,

The soap:header definition in WSDL shouldn't be mandatory? I want to fix
it in my web service in a specific operation. But, I made a post without
that header and the web service worked just fine. So, what is the
purpose of the soap:header?

About the soap:headerfault, axis is giving an error on web service
generation:

"
[axis-wsdl2java] java.io.IOException: No symbol table entry found for
message
{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/}NGINProAuthorizationServiceException
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.FaultInfo.<init>(FaultInfo.java:118)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.fillInBi
ndingInfo(SymbolTable.java:1856)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate
Bindings(SymbolTable.java:1785)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate
(SymbolTable.java:577)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.add(Symb
olTable.java:421)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate
(SymbolTable.java:408)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.symbolTable.SymbolTable.populate
(SymbolTable.java:393)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at
org.apache.axis.wsdl.gen.Parser$WSDLRunnable.run(Pars
er.java:245)
[axis-wsdl2java]        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
"

I put below a small portion of my WSDL. The sop:headerfault is
commented. The error when is commented out is:

"
[snip]

    <message name="NGINProSIDHeader">
        <part name="sid" type="xsd:string"/>
    </message>

    <message name="NGINProAuthorizationServiceException">
        <part name="fault" type="xsd:string"/>
    </message>

[snip]

    <binding name="NGINProBinding" type="tns:NGINProPort">

        <operation name="callService">
            <input>
            <soap:header message="NGINProSIDHeader" part="sid" 
                use="encoded" 
               
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
               
namespace="http://www.ptinovacao.pt/nginpro/interfaces/wsdl">
                <!--<soap:headerfault 
                message="NGINProAuthorizationServiceException" 
                part="fault" use="encoded" 
               
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
               
namespace="http://www.ptinovacao.pt/nginpro/interfaces/wsdl"/>-->
            </soap:header>
            <soap:body 
               
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
                use="encoded" 
               
namespace="http://www.ptinovacao.pt/nginpro/interfaces/wsdl"/>
            </input>
            <output>
            <soap:body 
               
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
                use="encoded" 
               
namespace="http://www.ptinovacao.pt/nginpro/interfaces/wsdl"/>
            </output>
            <fault name="NGINProServiceException">
                <soap:fault 
               
encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
                use="encoded" 
               
namespace="http://www.ptinovacao.pt/nginpro/interfaces/wsdl"
                />
            </fault>

            <soap:operation soapAction="callService"/>
        </operation>

    <soap:binding 
        transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" 
        style="rpc"/>

    </binding>
[snip]
"
thanks,
Pedro Salazar.
-- 
PS
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