Adding attributes to a simple property

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

I am trying to create a new property inside a SoapObject that will contain 
simple string properties with attributes to them like this:

<Power Unit="kw">1500</Power>

here is the code i am using for my samples below.

 final SoapObject powerObject= new SoapObject(namespace, "CostOfRepairs");
        powerObject.addAttribute("Unit", getPowerUnit());

        PropertyInfo powerObjectProperty = new PropertyInfo();
        powerObjectProperty .setName("");
        powerObjectProperty .type = String.class;
        powerObjectProperty .setValue(getPower());
        powerObjectProperty .addProperty(powerObjectProperty);
        root.addSoapObject(powerObject); // this is my root for the hierarchy

What do you see instead?

The best that i could reach is the following:
<Power Unit="kw"><>1500</></Power>

i even tried to add everything as a string but that encodes the <> tags.
&ltPower Unit"kw"&gt1500&lt/Power&gt

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
ksoap2-android-assembly-2.6.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar on android.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by darkogro...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2012 at 8:15

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Seems like you found an issue indirectly. I will push a fix and the test case 
for you soon.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2012 at 12:01

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The commit 
https://github.com/mosabua/ksoap2-android/commit/f0e23aed58d2b8d0aabc4ae2436a2dc
8c4e036bc

has a unit test that produces the output as well as the fix needed for it to 
work. PropertyInfo is not intended to be used like you are trying to do here as 
far as I can tell.. 

Please verify and let me know of any problems. I can cut a new release whenever 
needed.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2012 at 4:10

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Also i came across a new thing still related to this.

it is happening when ksoap is trying to parse the response when it is like this:

<Document Description="None">Some random text here</Document>

it fails inside soapSerializationEnvelope throwing a runtime exception: Mixed 
content:

in this method specifically:
 protected Object readUnknown(XmlPullParser parser, String typeNamespace, String typeName) throws IOException,
    XmlPullParserException;

on row 75:
  if (text != null && text.trim().length() != 0) {
                Logger.d("tag", text);
                //  throw new RuntimeException("Malformed input: Mixed content");
            }

now i know the text that needs to be extracted here is present and the 
resulting object should be again a soapPrimitive instead of a soap object.

Original comment by darkogro...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2012 at 7:54

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Hm.. I am parsing lots of stuff like that and it does not happen for me. Can 
you create a unit test that shows the behaviour?

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2012 at 4:25

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I am sorry i didn't properly post the response form, the one above is a regular 
property parse right :)

Here is the correct form i am receiving:

 <Document CreationDate="2012-03-22">
                        http://www.somepage.com/document.pdf
                        <RegionLimitation>false</RegionLimitation>
                     </Document>

This feels kinda like an inproper response for me but its how it is received, 
but i am working on an already built service that has a web app, desktop app on 
top of it and now an iphone and android one which use this and everyone except 
android can parse this without any issues whatsoever. so i am guessing it is 
supposed to be possible.

Original comment by darkogro...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2012 at 8:17

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This is totally invalid as far as I understand. I am not sure what the impact 
would be to support that sort of weird response. Arguably it should be fixed 
but since you dont have that option you will have to look how ksoap parses this 
response and come up with a fix. I would suggest to write a unit test in e.g. 
SoapSerializationEnvelopeTest and then try to fix it to parse.. however I 
believe this should be a separate issue. Please create that and post the 
necessary documentation there. I will close this issue with the next release 
since the original problem is fixed.

Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2012 at 5:08

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Original comment by mosa...@gmail.com on 10 Apr 2012 at 5:24

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Hi,

I also have a related issue as the original poster the difference is that I 
also need to include namespace. 

I believe the suggested solution is to use SoapPrimitive as in unit test.

What I want to acheive is to add namespace e.g:

<n0:Power Unit="kw">1500</Power>

The testIssue112() function specified the namespace in the SoapPrimitive object 
but that is not reflected in the output.

Plese confirm if this is bug or there is any other way around it.

Original comment by shirazni...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2013 at 11:21

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how is this fixed?

if i set propertyinfo name to "" it will create <Element><>Value</></Element>

Original comment by mazm...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2014 at 3:10