Re: WebServiceProxyFactory bug??

Ah, I see that this issue is already noted as a bug in bugzilla. But, no 
one had figured out your 'work-around'. I added the info in the thread 
above as a comment to the bug. The bug is:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302985

John.

John Bandhauer wrote:
> FWIW, This is working as designed. The issue is that arbitrary XML 
> 'names' need to be mapped to legal JS 'identifiers' in and easily 
> reversible way. I remember discussing this with Vidur at the time (he 
> did most of this work). We agreed to do something *very* simple and just 
> use a single underscore as an escape character. We were aware of the 
> downside, but decided to do it this way anyway. This was 5+ years ago 
> and this Soap support for mozilla was a very experimental project.
> 
> The code is in the two static methods:
> 
> WSPFactory::C2XML and WSPFactory::XML2C at 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/extensions/webservices/proxy/src/wspfactory.cpp#209 
> 
> 
> I can imagine other escaping strategies (e.g. a multi-character escape 
> indicator). Of course, changing this now would break any code that 
> *expects* the current behavior.
> 
> As to bug filing...  If you go to the main bugzilla page 
> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org) and search for bugs with "wsdl" in the 
> subject line you'll get a list of some of the bugs and feature requests 
> related to this module. It appears that bugs are filed as: Product: 
> Core, Component: Web Services.
> 
> John.
> 
> cbare wrote:
>> I'm trying to use the WebServiceProxyFactory to access a public web
>> service at:
>>
>> http://soap.genome.jp/KEGG.wsdl.
>>
>> I'm seeing some weird behavior, which is either a bug or I don't
>> understand what's going on. The WSDL for this service defines a bunch
>> of methods, among them: get_genes_by_organism.
>>
>>     <operation name="get_genes_by_organism">
>>       <input message="typens:get_genes_by_organismRequest"/>
>>       <output message="typens:get_genes_by_organismResponse"/>
>>     </operation>
>>
>>
>> The trouble is, the proxy generated by the factory ends up with names
>> like this: get_005fgenes_005fby_005forganism.
>>
>> Suspiciously, 0x005f is unicode for the underscore character. Maybe the
>> underscores are messing things up? Or maybe the WSDL is in an
>> unexpected character encoding?
>>
>> It works if I call the methods with the munged up names, but it's not
>> pretty. Anyone seen similar problems? Is there a good place to file a
>> bug report?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Chris
>>