#49577 [Com]: Invalid returntype of anyType.

ID: 49577 Comment by: jsd dot bugs dot php dot net at bvac dot co dot za Reported By: kim at datatal dot se Status: Open Bug Type: SOAP related Operating System: Windows PHP Version: 5.2.10 New Comment: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xmlschema-1-20041028/structures.html#Type_Derivation says: "...the ur-type definition, whose name is anyType in the XML Schema namespace..." so I believe it is indeed a bug: ur-type is indeed the correct type here, but the _name_ of ur-type is "anyType", and it is the name of the type that belongs in the XML. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-18 10:57:46] kim at datatal dot se Tried latest 5.2 snapshot, still the same result. If you look in php_encoding.c:2392 you will see that "xsd:anyType" is written as "xsd:ur-type". If you see the specification for SOAP 1.1 you will note that arrays have ur-type as the data-type for arrays: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/#_Toc478383522 So this seems like a no-bug, except that XML Schema specification dictates that ur-type is only an abstract type and not part of the public XML document specification. That leads to validation of SOAP responses with ur-type failing. I'm not sure if this "bug" can be handled/fixed in PHP-SOAP or if its only a problem with the SOAP specification, or some other unknown reason for this being a problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-09-17 10:08:00] kim at datatal dot se Description: ------------ Returning from a method invoked over SOAP RPC with a datatype of anyType to a .NET client application will generate an error when the datatype in PHP is an array with values of different types. As specified in the XML Schema document there something known as anyType which is a close approximation to the urType/ur-type. Validation fails in the .NET client due to SOAP returning a datatype of ur-type and not anyType. It works when all the values in the array is of the same type, since the array will become of the type of the values instead of a generic/abstract type. Reproduce code: --------------- Create a web service with the following in the WSDL: <message name="theMethodResponse"> <part name="theMethodReturn" type="xsd:anyType"/> </message> <portType name="thePort"> <operation name="theMethod"> <output message="typens:theMethodResponse"/> </operation> </portType> In the SOAP service implementation: public function theMethod() { return array("value", 1234); } Expected result: ---------------- The expected result returned from the method in C# is a type of object[]. Actual result: -------------- An exception specifying that 'ur-type' is not defined in the XML schema in the following response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP- ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:ns1="urn:smsservice" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">; <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:theMethodResponse> <theMethodReturn SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:ur-type[2]" xsi:type="SOAP- ENC:Array"> <item xsi:type="xsd:string">value</item> <item xsi:type="xsd:int">1234</item> </theMethodReturn> </ns1: theMethodResponse> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49577&edit=1