[AWS] SOAP questions

Pascal Obry p.obry@wanadoo.fr
Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:12:32 +0100


Alejandro,

 > I'm studying the SOAP module and want simply that someone more
 > experienced confirm some impressions I now have:
 > 
 > * One can only use the predefined types in SOAP.Types. Any type not
 > there must be splitted or transformed to a string or base64
 > representation.

Yes.

 > * One must obtain elsewhere a Base64 encoder to use that type, since
 > the constructor takes a String *already* containing the Base64 encoded
 > data.

No, see AWS.Translator API.

 > * I can't discern any difference between SOAP_Record and SOAP_Array,
 > except for the constructor name.

There is almost none indeed. You just access the items with an indice fro
array and a name for records. Internally, both are implemented the same.

Pascal.

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