Issue - 181 - uninitializedVariable cleanup

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Issue - 181 - uninitializedVariable cleanup

Status: received
Date added: 10 Dec 2004
Categories: Syntax and validation
Date submitted: 10 December 2004
Submitter: Yaron Y. Goland
Description: Section 14.2 currently states "An attempt during process execution to 
use any part of a variable before it is initialized MUST result in the 
standard bpws:uninitializedVariable fault."

Appendix 1 in table A.1 in the row marked uninitializedVariable currently states "Thrown when there is an attempt to access the value of an uninitialized part in a message variable."

In both cases there is a presumption that variables can only be of WSDL message type.

Thanks to Ron Ten-Hove for finding this problem.
Submitter's proposal: Change the text in 14.2 to read: "An attempt during process execution to use a variable or in the case of a message type variable a part of a variable before it is initialized MUST result in the standard bpws:uninitializedVariable fault."

Change the text in table A.1 to read: "Thrown when there is an attempt to access the value of an uninitialized variable or in the case of a message type variable one of its uninitialized parts."
Changes: 10 Dec 2004 - new issue

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