[Ctk-developers] Ctk-developers Digest, Vol 26, Issue 6

Sascha Zelzer s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de
Mon Sep 19 13:38:48 UTC 2011


Hi Benoit,

Yes, QtSOAP is now always build as a shared library (I only needed to 
adapt some CMake code and the export/import defines in qtsoap.h).

- Sascha

On 09/19/2011 03:06 PM, Benoit Bleuze wrote:
> Great work Sascha, those singleton and static lib issues are always a 
> pain to debug!
> But how did you fix it? Are you  building QtSoap as a dynamic lib? Or 
> did you change the QtSoap code?
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     Hi Anthony,
>
>     I finally investigated the issue under Windows (I could not
>     reproduce it on Linux) and just pushed a fix for it to CTK. Please
>     update your CTK sources and build CTK at the superbuild level
>     (this should update the QtSOAP library) to fix the namespace issue.
>
>     Here is the technical stuff why it went wrong ;-)
>
>     QtSOAP was build as a static library but it used a singleton
>     called QtSoapNamespace in its code. So using singletons from a
>     static library in multiple DLLs is a bad idea and this is why the
>     namespaces where missing for some QtSoapMessage instances (they
>     where initialized in one DLL, which filled this DLLs
>     QtSOAPNamespace singleton with namespace entries, but serialized
>     to XML in an other DLL, whose singleton did not know anything
>     about the namespaces).
>
>     Best,
>     Sascha
>
>
>
>     On 09/14/2011 03:24 AM, Anthony Dass wrote:
>
>         Hi Sascha and Ben,
>
>         I noticed that only on submitting the SOAP request the
>         namespaces is getting lost but for the same submission the
>         response shows the valid message with the namespace included.
>
>         So, in the ctkSoapClient class, I just tried creating the
>         QtSoapType object (as below) to set  as a method arguments and
>         this works! - gets the required namespace as expected and the
>         SOAP message is valid one. However if we do the same
>         construction in  ctkDicomHostService and pass to the
>         ctkSimpleSoapClient object via function call, it doesn't seem
>         to work. do you have any clue?
>
>         //created in submitSoapRequest of the ctkSimpleSoapClient  class
>         QtSoapType* soapType = new
>         QtSoapSimpleType(QtSoapQName("state"),
>         ctkDicomSoapState::toStringValue(ctkDicomAppHosting::IDLE));
>         request.addMethodArgument(soapType);
>
>
>         Below is the SOAP message of the request and response.
>
>         submit Request(request, d->Path); - namespace missing in the
>         type attribute
>         =========================
>         <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
>         xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>         SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>         xmlns:xsd="htt
>         p://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema <http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema>">
>         <SOAP-ENV:Body
>         xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
>         <setState xmlns="http://wg23.dicom.nema.org/">
>         <state :type="xsd:string">CANCELED</state>
>         </setState>
>         </SOAP-ENV:Body>
>         </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
>
>         Got Response. Response:  - name space for type attribute is
>         present.
>         =========================
>         "<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
>         xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>         SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>         xml
>         ns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
>         <SOAP-ENV:Body
>         xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
>         <SOAP-ENV:setState
>         xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
>         <SOAP-ENV:setStateResponse
>         xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>         xsi:type="xsd:boolean"
>         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">false</SOAP-ENV:setStateResponse>
>         </SOAP-ENV:setState>
>         </SOAP-ENV:Body>
>         </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
>
>         Thank you!
>         /Anthony
>
>         On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Benoit Bleuze
>         <benoit.bleuze at inria.fr <mailto:benoit.bleuze at inria.fr>> wrote:
>
>             We indeed completely depend on QtSoap for creating the
>             Soap messages. If the soap message looks like this before
>             any parsong, there is definitely something wrong in QtSoap.
>             However it was tha case, I would understand that our
>             implementation works only on our host, but it also works
>             with XIP, which is not based on QtSoap.
>             So either this attribute is simply ignored by the java
>             implementation, or there is some preprocessing that strips
>             part of the message?
>             Definitely worth investigating...
>
>             ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Hello Sascha and Ben,
>
>                 Thank you very much for the quick and detailed answers.
>
>                 In addition, when we tried to validate the message
>                 using the online validations -
>                 http://www.xmlvalidation.com we also see the type
>                 attribute :type="xsd:string" is not a valid XML
>                 attribute string and also it looks that the namespace
>                 name is missing here. The string should be
>                 either type="xsd:string" if no namespace is
>                 used(without leading colon), or this
>                 xmlns:type="xsd:string" if xmlns is a namespace name.
>
>                 Since the method addMethodAttribute
>                 of QtSoapmessage is setting this, is that we need to
>                 change in the QtSoap module? or any other options?
>                 please advice.
>
>                 thank you very much!
>                 /Anthony
>
>
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>                       1. Re: CTK based Hosted App fails when launched
>                     from Non-CTK
>                          Host (Benoit Bleuze)
>
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>                     ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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>                     Message: 1
>                     Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:46:30 +0200 (CEST)
>                     From: Benoit Bleuze <benoit.bleuze at inria.fr
>                     <mailto:benoit.bleuze at inria.fr>>
>                     Subject: Re: [Ctk-developers] CTK based Hosted App
>                     fails when launched
>                            from Non-CTK Host
>                     To: Sascha Zelzer <s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de
>                     <mailto:s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de>>
>                     Cc: Anthony Dass <antdass at gmail.com
>                     <mailto:antdass at gmail.com>>,
>                     ctk-developers at commontk.org
>                     <mailto:ctk-developers at commontk.org>
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>                     Hi Anthony, Sascha gave you all the technical
>                     answers we had in stock so far, but I can add a
>                     bit of context here, it may help. As Sascha said,
>                     the state/newState switch is due to XIP not
>                     following the specifications. And your change is
>                     valid. We started with "state", but the only other
>                     host we could use being XIP, we changed it. You
>                     are welcome to revert it. I think we notified
>                     Larry (Lawrence Tarbox) of that problem during the
>                     last hackfest in Chapel Hill. Eventually XIP will
>                     change its API there (or so I hope). Replacing the
>                     WSDL files doesn't change anything since we don't
>                     use them to generate the interface, all the
>                     messages are hard coded soap messages constructed
>                     from C++. Now I know nothing of the WCF
>                     unfortunately, so I can't tell you whether the
>                     "type:" keyword is misinterpreted or whatever.
>                     Sascha's suggestion of changing the casing sounds
>                     promising to me. I remember we used capitals in
>                     some actions , following the WSDL actually, and
>                     had to change it afterwards for
>                      specifications and XIP compatibility. I remember
>                     Larry telling us the WSDL provided in the specs
>                     was not up to date, and thus we provide an updated
>                     (or at least it was valid last february) set of
>                     WSDL (and siblings) files there:
>                     http://www.commontk.org/index.php/File:Wsdl_ft.zip
>                     Note that they also have actions starting with
>                     capitals. I have a faint memory of Larry giving us
>                     an explanation as to why they were upper cased,
>                     but I can't remember the reason, my guess is that
>                     the .Net implementation forced them to do so. And
>                     it is very well possible that the XIP java
>                     implementation accepts both casing and the .NET or
>                     WCF are stricter, so I guess you'll have to choose
>                     between the proposed WSDL and the
>                     specifications... Keep us posted of your progress.
>                     Ben ----- Original Message -----
>                     > Hi Anthony,
>                     > Welcome to the ctk-developers list.
>                     > > We've tried adapting one of our DICOM
>                     application into a CTK Based
>                     > > Hosted App. It works well when tried with the
>                     ctkhost - we could
>                     > > launch the app, load the DICOM data and get
>                     through different states
>                     > > as well.
>                     > So far, good news.
>                     > > However when tried launching the same app with
>                     different non-ctk
>                     > > based
>                     > > host, it launches our app but fails to load
>                     any data. This non-ctk
>                     > > based host seems to be written using the WCF
>                     as per specification in
>                     > > DICOM 118.
>                     > Please note that we could only test our
>                     implementation against the XIP
>                     > host (written in Java) so far. So the problems
>                     you are experiencing
>                     > might very well relate to our implementation.
>                     > > On investigating, we noticed that the initial
>                     ?IDLE? message sent by
>                     > > the App upon launch is not getting processed
>                     by the Non-CTK based
>                     > > host.
>                     > > When traced the SOAP communication, we found
>                     out that the messages
>                     > > from the plug-in are getting to the host, but
>                     then they are not
>                     > > processed by WCF because of some WSDL contacts
>                     mismatch. Thus the
>                     > > host
>                     > > does not receive any messages. Here?s the log
>                     message:
>                     > > < Message > The message with Action '' cannot
>                     be processed at the
>                     > > receiver, due to a ContractFilter mismatch at the
>                     > > EndpointDispatcher.
>                     > > This may be because of either a contract
>                     mismatch (mismatched
>                     > > Actions
>                     > > between sender and receiver) or a
>                     binding/security mismatch between
>                     > > the sender and the receiver. Check that sender
>                     and receiver have the
>                     > > same contract and the same binding (including
>                     security requirements,
>                     > > e.g. Message, Transport, None). </ Message >
>                     > > When debugging the WCF processing of the
>                     message we get the
>                     > > deserialization error:
>                     > > "The ':' character, hexadecimal value 0x3A,
>                     cannot be included in a
>                     > > name. Line 4, position 11."
>                     > > Here?s the SOAP message braced between the
>                     CTK-plugin and Non-CTK
>                     > > based Host:
>                     > > < SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV = "
>                     > > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ "
>                     SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle =
>                     > > "
>                     > > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ "
>                     xmlns:xsd = "
>                     > > http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema " >
>                     > > < SOAP-ENV:Body xmlns:SOAP-ENV = "
>                     > > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ " >
>                     > > < notifyStateChanged xmlns = "
>                     http://wg23.dicom.nema.org/ " >
>                     > > < newState :type = " xsd:string " > IDLE </
>                     newState >
>                     > > </ notifyStateChanged >
>                     > > </ SOAP-ENV:Body >
>                     > > </ SOAP-ENV:Envelope >
>                     > > We can see the ?:type? item in the newState
>                     element that?s causing
>                     > > the
>                     > > error in WCF. Also, per DICOM supplement 118
>                     it should be called
>                     > > ?state?, not ?newState?.
>                     > Looking at the debug output from the CTK hosted
>                     app, the xml namespace
>                     > for the "type" attribute in the "newState" tag
>                     is intact. So I am
>                     > wondering it the output above has already been
>                     modified somehow by the
>                     > WCF host or if it is the original message from
>                     the CTK hosted app.
>                     > > Here?s the example of the SOAP message
>                     generated by Non-CTK based
>                     > > HostedApp: < s:Envelope xmlns:s = "
>                     > > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ " >
>                     < s:Body > <
>                     > > NotifyStateChanged xmlns = "
>                     > >
>                     http://dicom.nema.org/PS3.19/HostService-20100825
>                     " > < state > IDLE
>                     > > </ state > </ NotifyStateChanged > </ s:Body >
>                     </ s:Envelope >
>                     > > Next, we tried changing ?newState? to ?state?
>                     but again it fails
>                     > > when
>                     > > tried with the non-ctk based host and
>                     producing the same error.
>                     > I think it is still either related to the
>                     ":type" attribute or the
>                     > error described below. Concerning
>                     state/newState, please also see my
>                     > comments below.
>                     > > ...
>                     > > 2011-09-06 17:17:59,609 <faultstring
>                     xsi:type="xsd:string"
>                     > > xmlns:xsi="
>                     > > http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance
>                     ">The message with Action
>                     > > ''
>                     > > cannot be processed at the receiver, due to a
>                     ContractFilter
>                     > > mismatch
>                     > > at the EndpointDispatcher. This may be because
>                     of either a contract
>                     > > mismatch (mismatched Actions between sender
>                     and receiver) or a
>                     > > binding/security mismatch between the sender
>                     and the receiver. Check
>                     > > that sender and receiver have the same
>                     contract and the same binding
>                     > > (including security requirements, e.g.
>                     Message, Transport,
>                     > > None).</faultstring> ...
>                     > This actually hints at a problem concerning the
>                     action names. Looking
>                     > at the WSDL, the operation names start with
>                     upper case latters, where
>                     > we are using lower case (unfortunately, the text
>                     in the DICOM Part 19
>                     > specs refer to the method names with starting
>                     lower case letters).
>                     > > I even tried replacing the WSDL files with the
>                     one provided by
>                     > > Non-CTK
>                     > > based host, but still it doesn?t seem to work.
>                     > Yes, that does not change the actual behavior.
>                     > > When looked at the code, I noticed a comment
>                     in the CTK code (below
>                     > > methods) ?spec would be "state", java has
>                     "newState" FIX
>                     > > JAVA/STANDARD?. Could this be something we
>                     need to look for? If so
>                     > > may
>                     > > I know what would be the change in Java side.
>                     > Unfortunately, again, the text in the specs
>                     refer to "newState" for
>                     > the argument name and this is what the XIP host
>                     is using. So we used
>                     > it too for testing with XIP. But I agree that
>                     the WSDL should be the
>                     > definite guide and we should use "state" when
>                     not testing with XIP.
>                     > My advice would be to keep your modification
>                     ("newState" -> "state")
>                     > and also try to modify the action (method) names in
>                     > ctkDicomAppService.cpp (lines 40 - 60) to use
>                     upper case for the first
>                     > letter.
>                     > I would be happy if you could keep us posted
>                     about your progress.
>                     > Thanks,
>                     > Sascha
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