15.7.5.XML Schema & SOAP
The XML Schema defines primitive types, such as "integer","string" and "float". Users may extend or restrict the primitive types to build their own type system. For example, a type "monthCode" could be an enumerated list of three character strings corresponding to JAN, FEB, etc... SOAP types can use any of these types: native, primitive XML Schema types or complex types which should be fully described using XML Schema.
SOAP messages that use XML Schema types or complex types contain a fragment of XML Schema or a reference to a schema file so that the data types can be determined and messages validated.
The Virtuoso tutorials contain many examples from the SOAP Interop test suite. Each tutorial displays both the request message and response message from the server when the tests are executed. Below is a sample message exchange of the echoStruct tutorial (SO-S-20) which uses a trivial complex struct composed of an integer, float and a string:
Example15.21.Sample Run of Tutorial SO-S-20
Struct parameter inputs:
varString = hello varInt = 42 varFloat = 99.004997253418
Return value:
varString = hello varInt = 42 varFloat = 99.004997253418
Request message:
<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<SOAP:Envelope
SOAP:encodingType='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
xmlns:SOAP='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:dt='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes'>
<SOAP:Body>
<cli:echoStruct SOAP:encodingStyle='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/'
xmlns:cli='http://soapinterop/' >
<inputStruct>
<varInt xsi:type="xsd:int" dt:dt="int">42</varInt>
<varFloat xsi:type="xsd:float" dt:dt="float">99.004997</varFloat>
<varString xsi:type="xsd:string" dt:dt="string">hello</varString>
</inputStruct>
</cli:echoStruct>
</SOAP:Body>
</SOAP:Envelope>
Response message:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAPSDK1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:SOAPSDK2="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:SOAPSDK3="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAPSDK4:echoStructResponse
xmlns:SOAPSDK4="http://soapinterop/">
<Result href="#id1"/>
</SOAPSDK4:echoStructResponse>
<SOAPSDK5:SOAPStruct
xmlns:SOAPSDK5="http://soapinterop.org/xsd"
xml:id="id1" SOAPSDK3:root="0"
SOAPSDK2:type="SOAPSDK5:SOAPStruct">
<varString>hello</varString>
<varInt>42</varInt>
<varFloat>99.004997253418</varFloat>
</SOAPSDK5:SOAPStruct>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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