8031 2009-10-23 13:36:19 +0000 WS-Mex: Distinguishing the 'main' metadata 2010-03-17 11:34:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WS-Resource Access MetadataExchange FPWD PC Windows XP CLOSED REMIND P2 normal --- 1 katy_warr katy_warr asirveda dug public-ws-resource-access-notifications oldest_to_newest 28898 0 katy_warr 2009-10-23 13:36:19 +0000 A GetMetadata request may return multiple documents all of the same dialect. How does the client know which of these documents is the 'root' document? For example (this is a side note mentioned in 7912): When multiple WSDL documents* are returned from GetMetadata, how do we distinguish the 'real' one - i.e. the one that would be returned from HTTP GET targeted at <endpoint>?WSDL ? Note that there might be >1 root documents - for instance, in the case of one WSDL for soap 1.1 and one for SOAP 1.2. *Multiple WSDL documents may be returned if operations are implicitly defined (via policy) or if WSDL documents are imported. Proposal: -------- Here is a starting proposal: Add an attribute @root to the dialect in order to indicate that the metadata section is a 'root' one. Define the meaning of the 'root' document for each dialect. <mex:MetadataSection Dialect='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ Identifier='http://services.example.org/stockquote' Root=true> ... </mex:MetadataSection> <mex:MetadataSection Dialect='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ Identifier='http://www.w3.org/2009/09/ws-tra' Root=false> ... </mex:MetadataSection> 29248 1 asirveda 2009-11-02 01:40:29 +0000 Discussion at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Nov/0006.html 29359 2 bob 2009-11-05 21:20:23 +0000 Use case is to allow the mex metadata consumer can determine if a wsdl document is intended to be treated as implicit. I.e, that it is feature wsdl Agreed 2009-11-05 29361 3 bob 2009-11-05 21:21:22 +0000 proposed way forward: as part of definition of wsdl dialect in mex spec, we define an optional boolean attribute, called @isImplicit, which if present with value true indicates that this is feature wsdl implied value is 'false' to be re-visited 2009-11-06 29895 4 bob 2009-12-02 17:38:18 +0000 Connected possibly with 7986 any may be simultaneously resolved 32867 5 bob 2010-03-09 21:54:43 +0000 resolved by resolution to 6463 which see