Hi, I noticed that the SOAP generated by Axis clients is different from what I expected. Whenever, the request/reply messages contain a complexType as a parameter then the generated SOAP seems to use <multiRef> and the parameters are seems to be refer to the multiRef element using href.
For example: look at the soap protocol exchanged in the samples/addr example is shown below. Is this expected behavior? Is there a document/email-thread/spec. that explains why multiRefs elements are used instead of simply inlining the parameter elements? Thx. Harish POST /axis/services/AddressBook HTTP/1.0 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Accept: application/soap+xml, application/dime, multipart/related, text/* User-Agent: Axis/beta3 Host: localhost Cache-Control: no-cache Pragma: no-cache SOAPAction: "" Content-Length: 1627 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:addEntry soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:ns1="urn:AddressFetcher2"> <name xsi:type="ns2:string" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema";>Purdue Boilermaker</name> <address href="#id0"/> </ns1:addEntry> <multiRef id="id0" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xsi:type="ns3:address" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:ns3="urn:AddressFetcher2"> <streetNum xsi:type="xsd:int">1</streetNum> <streetName xsi:type="xsd:string">University Drive</streetName> <city xsi:type="xsd:string">West Lafayette</city> <state href="#id1"/> <zip xsi:type="xsd:int">47907</zip> <phoneNumber href="#id2"/> </multiRef> <multiRef id="id1" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xsi:type="ns4:stateType" xmlns:ns4="urn:AddressFetcher2" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";>IN</multiRef> <multiRef id="id2" soapenc:root="0" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xsi:type="ns5:phone" xmlns:ns5="urn:AddressFetcher2" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";> <areaCode xsi:type="xsd:int">765</areaCode> <exchange xsi:type="xsd:string">494</exchange> <number xsi:type="xsd:string">4900</number> </multiRef> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Set-Cookie: 1 Set-Cookie2: 1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <soapenv:Body> <ns1:addEntryResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:ns1="urn:AddressFetcher2"/> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>
