problem with Serialization/Arrays Value

[sfonteneau]

I use your project to communicate with Microsoft servers, it works fine except when using Serialization/Arrays :

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
        <s:Header>
            <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01/IProvisioningWebService/ProvisionAzureADSyncObjects</a:Action>
            <SyncToken s:role="urn:microsoft.online.administrativeservice" xmlns="urn:microsoft.online.administrativeservice" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                <ApplicationId xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">1651564e-7ce4-4d99-88be-0a65050d8dc3</ApplicationId>
                <BearerToken xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">token</BearerToken>
                <ClientVersion xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">8.0</ClientVersion>
                <DirSyncBuildNumber xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">1.5.29.0</DirSyncBuildNumber>
                <FIMBuildNumber xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">1.5.29.0</FIMBuildNumber>
                <IsInstalledOnDC xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">False</IsInstalledOnDC>
                <IssueDateTime xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">0001-01-01T00:00:00</IssueDateTime>
                <LanguageId xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">en-US</LanguageId>
                <LiveToken xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01"/>
                <ProtocolVersion xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">2.0</ProtocolVersion>
                <RichCoexistenceEnabled xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">False</RichCoexistenceEnabled>
                <TrackingId xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">da890d67-152c-498a-8272-a4b5fbf1c023</TrackingId>
            </SyncToken>
            <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:da890d67-152c-498a-8272-a4b5fbf1c023</a:MessageID>
            <a:ReplyTo>
                <a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address>
            </a:ReplyTo>
            <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">https://adminwebservice.microsoftonline.com/provisioningservice.svc</a:To>
        </s:Header>
        <s:Body>
            <ProvisionAzureADSyncObjects xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">
                <syncRequest xmlns:b="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2014/06" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
                    <b:SyncObjects>
                        <b:AzureADSyncObject>
                            <b:PropertyValues xmlns:c="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
                                <c:KeyValueOfstringanyType><c:Key>SourceAnchor</c:Key><c:Value i:type="d:string" xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">test</c:Value></c:KeyValueOfstringanyType>
                                <c:KeyValueOfstringanyType><c:Key>displayName</c:Key><c:Value i:type="d:string" xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">testsf41</c:Value></c:KeyValueOfstringanyType>
                                <c:KeyValueOfstringanyType><c:Key>userPrincipalName</c:Key><c:Value i:type="d:string" xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">[email protected]</c:Value></c:KeyValueOfstringanyType>
                            </b:PropertyValues>
                            <b:SyncObjectType>User</b:SyncObjectType>
                            <b:SyncOperation>Set</b:SyncOperation>
                        </b:AzureADSyncObject>
                    </b:SyncObjects>
                </syncRequest>
            </ProvisionAzureADSyncObjects>
        </s:Body>
 </s:Envelope>

Answer :

The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01:syncRequest. The InnerException message was 'Element 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays:Value' contains data from a type that maps to the name ':mustUnderstand'. The deserializer has no knowledge of any type that maps to this name. Consider using a DataContractResolver if you are using DataContractSerializer or add the type corresponding to 'mustUnderstand' to the list of known types - for example, by using the KnownTypeAttribute attribute or by adding it to the list of known types passed to the serializer.'.  Please see InnerException for more details.

I tried to look but I admit that I did not find

the project :

https://github.com/sfonteneau/AADInternals_python

[bluec0re]

Haven't worked with Microsoft environments for years... Can you confirm that it works with the powershell scripts your project is based on? (just to confirm that it's not a server side issue).

And if so, can you share the binary representation sent by the powershell scripts, so that I can compare?

[AndreasLrx]

After debugging the library with @sfonteneau I found out two issues:

• QNameDictionaryTextRecord encoding
• Float/Version detection

The first one is fixed in #16

For the float detection we have this element:

<ClientVersion xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/online/aws/change/2010/01">8.0</ClientVersion>

The text "8.0" is encoded as a DoubleTextRecord but it is a version in this context, and Microsoft servers are expecting a string not a float.
Any idea how to specify if the string is a version ? (It is not blocking for us, we can fork and comment out the float regex match in parse_data)

[AndreasLrx]

For the record, I compared with the powershell xml to binary output and powershell use char encoding almost everywhere:

• There is no usage of the known types (from dictionnary.py), instead each types are written in string
• The '8.0' is encoded as a Char Text Record
• The uuid and bytes are not detected (and encoded as Char Text too)