On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:41:04 +0100, Nis Martensen wrote: > Debbugs already disables some of the possible types around here: > https://salsa.debian.org/debbugs-team/debbugs/-/blob/master/cgi/soap.cgi#L49 > I suspect it should not disable the auto-detection completely because at > least some of the remaining types are actually needed. This means there > will always remain corner cases where it guesses wrong.
it seems like the use of auto-detection was more for quick prototyping convenience than it should be relied upon long term. the schema should be a fixed thing at this point: every response down to the field and its type should be written in stone. > Being prepared for this on the client side is a good idea. > Python-debianbts solves the problem in get_bug_log() by (mostly) > ignoring the xsi:type for message bodies and always converting them to > string. making every client copy & paste the same set of workarounds for bad server responses sounds like the wrong trade-off. at that point, why bother sending type information in the responses if clients can't rely on them ? i get that the server is misbehaving now so clients don't have much choice but to workaround them, but the server response should be fixed nevertheless.
