Bug #123827 for SOAP-Lite: "Unspecified namespace for type" on value for attribute named "type" but not in XSI namespace

Dear SOAP::Lite folk, I am getting "Unspecified namespace for type" from "decode_object" in Lite.pm and I think it is wrongly requiring a namespace on the value for an attribute in my SOM. I think this is a bug at around line 2225 in "decode_object" in Lite.pm. SOAP::Lite complains thusly when decoding the SOM returned by a successful SOAP call: Unspecified namespace for type 'WID' <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><env:Body><wd:Change_Other_IDs_Response xmlns:wd="urn:com.workday/bsvc" wd:version="v29.1"><wd:Custom_Identifier_Event_Reference><wd:ID wd:type="WID">b1e0015e98d501192f06811d0b53cc25</wd:ID></wd:Custom_Identifier_Event_Reference></wd:Change_Other_IDs_Response></env:Body></env:Envelope> at [...] Here is the same thing wrapped: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <env:Body> <wd:Change_Other_IDs_Response xmlns:wd="urn:com.workday/bsvc" wd:version="v29.1"> <wd:Custom_Identifier_Event_Reference> <wd:ID wd:type="WID">b1e0015e98d501192f06811d0b53cc25</wd:ID> </wd:Custom_Identifier_Event_Reference> </wd:Change_Other_IDs_Response> </env:Body> </env:Envelope> at [...] The culprit seems to be the un-namespace-qualified value "WID" for attribute wd:type here: <wd:ID wd:type="WID">b1e0015e98d501192f06811d0b53cc25</wd:ID> I believe that the code at around line 2225 in "decode_object" in Lite.pm demands a namespace (either explicit or default) of *values* for attributes when the localpart name of the attribute is "type" or "arrayType" *regardless* of the namespace of the name of the attribute. I don't think it should do that. I believe that a fix similar to this is warranted: SOAP/Lite.pm *** 2220,2229 **** --- 2220,2230 ---- $1 =~ /^[xX][mM][lL]/ || $uris{$1} && do { $attrs{SOAP::Utils::longname($uris{$1}, $2)} = do { my $value = $attrs{$_}; + $uris{$1} ne 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' || $2 ne 'type' && $2 ne 'arrayType' ? $value : SOAP::Utils::longname($value =~ m/^($SOAP::Constants::NSMASK?):(${SOAP::Constants::NSMASK}(?:\[[\d,]*\])*)/ ? ($uris{$1} || die("Unresolved prefix '$1' for attribute value '$value'\n"), $2) : ($uris{''} || die("Unspecified namespace for type '$value'\n"), $value) Thank you. Andy Davenport Harvey Mudd College andy@hmc.edu -------------------------------- SOAP-Lite-1.22 This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Linux xxxxxxxx.hmc.edu 2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 23 15:44:03 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux