Re: [elpa] Excorporate: Exchange integration package

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org>]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

> Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim@fitzsim.org> writes:
>
>> To be clear, making EWS work involved extending soap-client's for XML
>> Schema Definitions in general ways.  There is nothing EWS-specific in
>> that work; nothing that advantages EWS over other SOAP services.  The
>> resulting improvements found bugs in soap-client's support for other
>> services like Debbugs.  I feel very strongly that Excorporate's
>> rejection from GNU ELPA has no bearing on merging these general
>> soap-client improvements.
>
> I know that, and I'll await happily the improved soap-client.el in the
> repo.
>
> Do you know something outstanding which shall be fixed in debbugs.el?
> There are some hacks in Debbugs.wsdl I had to apply due to restricted
> soap-client.el support, IIRC.

One in particular is that soap-client wasn't handling xsi:type overrides
like this:

    <found xsi:type="apachens:Map">
      <item>
        <key xsi:type="xsd:string">24.3.50</key>
        <value xsi:nil="true" />
      </item>
    </found>

I had to update our soap-client test case to expect the string "24.3.50"
instead of the symbol 24.3, in this case, now that the override is
working.

If you can provide the hacked and unhacked Debbugs.wsdl I can try them
out in the test suite.  We'll also need to retest "live" debbugs-gnu
carefully as part of the merge to check for regressions.

Thomas