[AXIS2-3612] Axis2 Jaxb binding and MTOM issue

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.3, 1.4
• Component/s: databinding
• Labels: jaxb
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Narayan Singh Dhillon
• Created: 15/Mar/08 07:59
• Updated: 30/Sep/11 04:23

Description

I tried a simple web service client with JAXB binding, and noticed that MTOM parts are being in-lined in the soap message as opposed to being XOP attachments.
The same client works fine with ADB binding.

Code example:
FileDataSource fileDataSource = new FileDataSource("C:
upload.dat");
DataHandler fileDataHandler = new DataHandler(fileDataSource);
InitiateRequest request = new InitiateRequest();
request.setRequestId("xxxxx");
request.setSubmission(fileDataHandler);
request.setSignature(sigDataHandler);

Response:
--MIMEBoundaryurn_uuid_EAE9BC656EBBB536921205317613109
Content-Type: application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type="text/xml"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-ID: <0.urn:uuid:[e-mail]>
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Body>
<InitiateRequest xmlns="urn:uploadfile">
<requestId>xxxxx</requestId>
<submission>VGVzdCBQYWluIFN1Ym1pc3Npb24=</submission>
<signature>VGVzdCBzaWduYXR1cmU=</signatur>
</InitiateRequest>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>-MIMEBoundaryurn_uuid_EAE9BC656EBBB536921205317613109-0

There are different views on this:
<Ajith Ranabahu>
Perhaps this has to do with JAXB using the StAX interfaces to
read/write XML ? If you see the MTOM support in ADB you'll see we went
to great lengths to provide a way to carry over the binary blob to the
data binding framework without text conversions. We did this by
introducing a property value through the StAX readers getProperties
method (See [1] for details)

So unless the data binding framework would know about this behavior
then it is unlikely that they support optimal binary. AFAIK we have a
similar problem with XMLBeans

Ajith

[1] http://wso2.org/library/236

<dims>
Narayan,

with jaxb you can supply your own data handlers for streaming. hopefully
someone on the team can help write a sample.
Please add an enhancement request for a sample in JIRA so we won't
forget.

thanks,
dims