[Fedora-suds-list] xs:dateTime (nillable) included in message

[Geraint Williams]

dateTime fields are included in the SOAP message, even when they have no value (fields of other data types are not included - which is desired behavior)

Using SUDS : 0.3.1

Server is WCF (.NET)

Extract from the xsd:  (sorry no public available wsdl, and not sure if I can distribute all wsdl / xsd)

<xs:complexType name="WorkOrder">
 xs:sequence
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="ActionTaken" nillable="true" type="xs:string" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="CompletedDateTime" nillable="true" type="xs:dateTime" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="CustomerId" nillable="true" type="xs:int" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="ExpirationDate" nillable="true" type="xs:dateTime" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Id" nillable="true" type="xs:int" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="RegisteredDateTime" nillable="true" type="xs:dateTime" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="ServiceDateTime" nillable="true" type="xs:dateTime" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="WorkOrderServices" nillable="true" type="tns:WorkOrderServiceCollection" /> 
  <xs:element minOccurs="0" name="WorkOrderStatusId" nillable="true" type="xs:int" /> 
 </xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>

Code:

from suds.client import Client
url = 'http://blah.blah.svc?wsdl'
client = Client(url)
authen = client.factory.create('ns3:AuthenticationHeader')
print authen
authen.UserName = 'XXX'
authen.Proof = 'XXX'
wo = client.factory.create('ns4:WorkOrder')
wo.Id = 3202
try:
    res = client.service.ReopenWorkOrder(wo, soapheaders=authen)
except Exception, e:
    print e
    print client.last_sent()

message (from client.last_sent())

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ " xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance " xmlns:tns="http://blah.blah/Security http://blah.blah/Security " xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ ">
   SOAP-ENV:Header
      tns:AuthenticationHeader
         tns:ProofXXX</tns:Proof>
         tns:UserNameXXX</tns:UserName>
      </tns:AuthenticationHeader>
   </SOAP-ENV:Header>
   <SOAP-ENV:Body xmlns:tns="http://blah.blah/Workforce http://blah.blah/Workforce ">
      tns:ReopenWorkOrder
         tns:workOrder
            tns:CompletedDateTime</tns:CompletedDateTime>
            tns:ExpirationDate</tns:ExpirationDate>
            tns:Id3202</tns:Id>
            tns:RegisteredDateTime</tns:RegisteredDateTime>
            tns:ServiceDateTime</tns:ServiceDateTime>
            tns:WorkOrderServices
               tns:Items/
            </tns:WorkOrderServices>
         </tns:workOrder>
      </tns:ReopenWorkOrder>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Thanks,
GEraint.