Question on SOAP compatibility

Currently I'm working on a Python SOAP client for Zimbra (using ZSI as SOAP implementation). ZSI doesn't support SOAP messages containing "inline" tags, such as: <name="test"/>; ZSI always encodes these messages as <name>test</name>. Can the Zimbra SOAP interface handle this, in stead of the specified tags? Or will this cause troubles?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by an inline tag. Do you mean attributes? for example:

Code:

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<node attribute="somevalue" />

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I would be surprised that any SOAP API would convert attributes into content because it would make something like this into nonsense:

Code:

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<node attribute="somevalue">text content</node>

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Zimbra uses attributes often as key values so you will often see large sets of nodes that look like:

Code:

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<attr name="key">value</attr>

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Well, take the SOAP AuthRequest call for example

Code:

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<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soap:Header>
<context xmlns="urn:zimbra">
<nosession/>
<format type="js"/>
</context>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<AuthRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraAccount">
<account by="name">
robin
</account>
<password>
password
</password>
</AuthRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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With these inline tags, I mean constructs like

Code:

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<nosession/>
<format type="js"/>

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Thanks!

The following two tags will parse the same via the XML parser, so you should be ok:

Code:

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<nosession/>
<nosession></nosession>

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