Re: SOAP problem with array encoding

"Martin Honnen" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[email protected]...
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> Hiran Chaudhuri wrote:
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> > Having tried SOAP calls from JavaScript in Mozilla and succeeded with
> > simple ones, I currently don't know how to handle arrays. Has anyone
> > out there had a similar problem already?
> 
> Which API in Mozilla are you using, the one more low level, described here:
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20031204005226/devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/soap/01/>
> or the higher level one (web service proxying, but of course still uses 
> SOAP), described here: http://web.archive.org/web/20031202203447/http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/wsdl/01/>

I use JavaScript with the first mentioned, the low level api as you say.

> As for the arrays, what are you trying exactly, passing arrays to the 
> web service, receiving an array? How does the WSDL for the web service 
> look (URL is better than posting that)?

Correct, I want to send/receive complex types. From the SOAP recommendation that is structures (works), arrays (don't know how to handle this) and arrays of structures (think I'll get it working as soon as I know how to handle arrays).

What wondered me most is that adding parameters to a property bag will serialise to a random order. If the order were preserved I could control array positions and document style calls as well.
 
> For complex arrays the section
> <http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/webservices/docs/Soap_Scripts_in_Mozilla.html#3.8_Using_Schema_Types>
> lists some hints.

Hmmmm, I've seen this document before, but maybe I miss the bit you refer to simply as it looks a bit abstract to me. The tutorials I've seen so far never refer to the schema types. Where can I get a sample for section 3.8? 
 
> Followup-to xml group set as I think it belongs there.

Thanks for the help.
 
> As for others running into problems with arrays Google finds stuff of 
> course:
> <http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?as_q=SOAP%20call%20array&safe=images&as_ugroup=*mozilla*&lr=&hl=en>
> maybe fine tune that search for more specific search terms.

I searched on Google also, but the references to "array" are the first array you fill with SOAPParameter instances that get SOAPCall_encoded. None did show me anything about further nested arrays.

Hiran