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

Sascha Zelzer s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de
Mon Sep 19 14:31:01 UTC 2011


You're welcome! Thanks to you for your debugging efforts and detailed 
reports here.

-Sascha

On 09/19/2011 04:18 PM, Anthony Dass wrote:
> Hello Sascha,
>
> Its really great to know about this fix!. Thank you so much for fixing 
> this so quickly. It would really help us, i'll try with this version.
>
> Once again thank you very much!
>
> Thanks,
> ~Anthony
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Sascha Zelzer 
> <s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de <mailto:s.zelzer at dkfz-heidelberg.de>> wrote:
>
>     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
>>
>>
>>             On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:47 AM,
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>>                   1. Re: CTK based Hosted App fails when launched
>>                 from Non-CTK
>>                      Host (Benoit Bleuze)
>>
>>
>>                 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>                 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>
>>                 Message-ID:
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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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