PI32902: SOAP VALIDATION GIVES NAMESPACE AS THE ACTUAL DATA FIELD VALUE

Rational Integration Tester 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 4 (8.6.0.4) for 8.6
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 4 (8.6.0.4) for 8.6
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 2 (8.7.0.2) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 3 (8.7.0.3) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 3 (8.7.0.3) for 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 1 (8.7.0.1) for 8.7
Rational Integration Tester Fix Pack 4 (8.7.0.4) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 4 (8.7.0.4) for 8.7
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 4 (8.7.0.4) for 8.7
Rational Test Virtualization Server Fix Pack 4 (8.6.0.4) for 8.6
Rational Performance Test Server Fix Pack 3 (8.7.0.3) for 8.7

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• In some cases the validation of SOAP message fields gives
  incorrect failures and incorrect failure messages.
  
  For example you see this:
  
  Expected value "0.00", found value "{http://<namespace
  details>}0.00" (Action = "Equality")
  
  This field should have passed validation.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED:                                              *
  * All users of Rational Integration Tester working with XML    *
  * namespace identifier (Qname) validation.                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:                                         *
  * Prior to version 8.5.1, Rational Integration Tester          *
  * performed XML namespace identifier (Qname) validation by     *
  * comparing the values as strings.  This meant that elements   *
  * with different namespace names (that resolved to the same    *
  * URL) would fail comparison when, logically, they were the    *
  * same. For example, <ns1:customer> were not considered to be  *
  * the same as <ns2:customer> when comparing expected and       *
  * actual messages, even if the definitions of ns1 and ns2      *
  * resolved to the same URL.                                    *
  *                                                              *
  * In release 8.5.1, this was changed so that comparison was    *
  * done using the resolved namespace names.                     *
  *                                                              *
  * However, for some customers, this change introduced a        *
  * problem in XML documents where the namespaces were not       *
  * defined.  In this case, Rational Integration Tester could    *
  * not resolve the namespace identifier, and validation failed  *
  * regardless of the string equivalence of the names.  These    *
  * users saw this problem as an undesired change in behavior.   *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION:                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• A fix for this issue was provided in version 8.7.0 of Rational
  Integration Tester, which now falls back to string comparison if
  the namespace identifier cannot be resolved for the XML
  messages.  This preserves pre-8.5.1 behavior in these cases
  while still providing correct validation when the namespace is
  defined.
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  RATL TEST WORKB

• Fixed component ID

  5725G7900

Applicable component levels

• R800 PSY

     UP

• R801 PSY

     UP

• R850 PSY

     UP

• R851 PSN

     UP

• R860 PSN

     UP

• R870 PSY

     UP