[CXF-6527] WSDLRefValidator reject valid target reference URI/IRI

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.3, 2.7.18, 3.0.7
• Component/s: Tooling
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Akitoshi Yoshida
• Reporter: Romain Chantereau
• Created: 10/Aug/15 14:44
• Updated: 14/Oct/16 14:36
• Resolved: 24/Aug/15 14:20

Description

When a target namespace have “:” in the path part of the URI, the validator reject the WSDL.

This is due to this piece of code at line 137 of tools/validator/src/main/java/org/apache/cxf/tools/validator/internal/WSDLRefValidator.java file.

private void checkTargetNamespace(String path) {
     try {
        if (new URL(path).getPath().indexOf(":") != -1) {
            throw new ToolException(": is not a valid char in the targetNamespace");
        }
   } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        // do nothing
   }
}

I checked the following specifications:

• XML namespace
• URI
• IRI
• WSDL 2.0 Target namespace
• WSDL service definition

and nothing forbids having a target namespace like the following one:
http://host:port/part/part/resource:resource

Then the validator add an extra constraint on the WSDL format without any explanation.

I looked into the source history, this validation is here since a long period (before going to git), then I was not able to find out the reason behind this explicit check.

Could fix this bug or explain why there is a such limitation?

Issue Links

• relates to: CXF-1200 wsdltojava accepts targetnamespace with ':' in the name but generate code that does not compile