New Issue 212: Must the contents of a message be received?

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Issue 212: Must the contents of a message be received?

Status: received
Date added: 2 Jun 2005
Categories: Data Handling
Date submitted: 02 June 2005
Submitter: Danny van der Rijn
Description:

If a receive/onMessage, etc. is declared against a portType that has a non-empty message, is it legal to not receive the messsage? It seems that it should be illegal, given that 112 already requires all parts of a message to be mapped. Discussion this afternoon doesn't leave me comfortable that we know the answer.

To be (more) clear:

WSDL
- portType
  - operation
   - in
     - msg
      - part1
      - part2

with a <receive> pointing to that port type. This receive declares no variable attribute to receive the variable into. Is this legal?
Changes: 2 Jun 2005 - new issue

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Tony

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Issue 212: Must the contents of a message be received?