Unexpected character

[Massimo-B]

We found an issue with a WSDL file that is referencing remote XSD code. While running in a proxied environment we use tsocks to connect:

tsocks ~/bin/kdwsdl2cpp -o Extensions.h Extensions.wsdl 
Warning: Definitions: unknown tag wsp:UsingPolicy
Warning: Definitions: unknown tag wsp:Policy
Warning: Definitions: unknown tag wsp:Policy
importing schema at http://www.unece.org/cefact/namespaces/StandardBusinessDocumentHeader
Downloading 'http://www.unece.org/cefact/namespaces/StandardBusinessDocumentHeader'
13:33:05 libtsocks(12842): Call to connect received on completed request 10
Download successful
Error[1:50] unexpected character
Warning: PortType: unknown tag wsp:Policy
Warning: Operation: unknown tag wsp:Policy
No service tag found in the wsdl file, generating one service per binding 
Converting 0 simple types 
Converting 0 complex types 

There are 2 issues, that do not seem to be proxy related:

Error[1:50] unexpected character Is this error in the XSD or in the WSDL file? I can't see something in line 1, column 50.

No service tag found in the wsdl file Do you need the WSDL for further investigation? There is actually no in the WSDL. I guess this is just a WSDL derived from a plain XSD as kdwsdl was not able to import XSD directly. Is a required in general just for defining data structures?

Kind regards, Massimo

[dfaure-kdab]

I strongly suggest that you make a one-time download of the XSD file(s) and adjust your WSDL to point to the file(s) locally, as I did in all unittests. This saves bandwidth usage and would also fix your problems with tsocks ;-)

The parse error "unexpected character" sounds like it's from the downloaded XSD, but I'd say, this isn't worth debugging, just have a local copy of the file.

"No service tag" is fine, as the line says, we're generating one automatically, so that shouldn't be a problem.

What might be a problem though, with this approach, is the code that strips out any data structures that aren't used by the WSDL. See Converter::cleanupUnusedTypes. If you add a command-line option for kdwsdl2cpp to keep unused types (by skipping the call to cleanupUnusedTypes when that new option --keep-unused-types is set), I can merge that in.