Re: [soapbuilders] "default" encoding style

[Glen Daniels <gd...@allaire.com>]

The spec says (sec 4.1.1):

<quote>
The serialization rules defined by SOAP in section 5 are identified by the
URI "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/". Messages using this
particular serialization SHOULD indicate this using the SOAP encodingStyle
attribute.
</quote>

I read the SHOULD there to mean that it isn't actually required that the
encodingStyle attribute be present to use section 5 encoding, and that much
as types may be inferred solely via an external contract (schema), encoding
may simply be agreed-upon "out of band".

If this in fact is the case, it seems reasonable to let the developer set
the default encoding style via a means like the one I wrote.  Perhaps
defaulting to section 5 encoding isn't a good choice, though - we might be
better off making anyone who wants to use this feature explicitly turn it
on.

Thoughts?

--Glen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <sa...@watson.ibm.com>
To: "Apache SOAP" <so...@xml.apache.org>; <so...@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <an...@microsoft.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: [soapbuilders] "default" encoding style


> In the CVS commit message Glen wrote:
>   * Add a default encoding style to the SOAPMappingRegistry.  If
>     the query*() methods are called with a null encodingStyle
>     (you aren't technically required to send one), we'll try
>     whatever this is set to.  Right now the RPC code sets this
>     to SOAP_ENC.
>
> While SOAP doesn't require one to set an encoding style, when one
> is not there nothing is indicated about the encoding style. That is,
> the SOAP spec *DOES NOT* specify a default encoding style.
>
> I disagree with this "fix" .. this is making Apache SOAP bug
> compatible with a buggy impl! I am all for good interop, but making
> things bug compatible ain't helpful. I believe the MS team did
> fix this in a later release.
>
> Sanjiva.
>
>
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