[Fedora-suds-list] soap encoded arrays in 0.3.8
Jeff Ortel
jortel at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 18:02:55 UTC 2009
All,
Hopefully, this is good news :)
Revision 607 completes unmarshaller side of the 'enhanced soap (section 5) encoded arrays'
feature in 0.3.8. What this does is flatten the soap encoded arrays in rpc/encoded
services into python lists. Remember, soap encoded arrays are Array objects which contain
a collection of <xs:any/>. So, for an array of (int), the XML would look like this:
<foo>
<numbers xsi:type="soap-enc:Array" soap-enc:arrayType="xs:int[2]">
<number>1</number>
<number>2</number>
</numbers>
</foo>
In suds <= 0.3.7, this would be unmarshalled literally as:
foo {
numbers {
number = ["1","2"]
}
}
Or if the <number xsi:type="xs:int"/> had the xsi:type attribute,
foo {
numbers {
number = [1,2]
}
}
because suds was interpreting the schema literally, that is what you got.
In 0.3.8, the Encoded unmarshaller interprets and flattens the encoded array
and gives you what you would expect:
foo {
numbers = [1,2]
}
A nice python list of integers :) which is symmetrical to what you would pass as an
argument or nested attribute value. And, this is how rpc/literal and document/literal
services have returned arrays for a long time.
Also, in <= 0.3.7, empty soap encoded arrays were *not* represented as:
foo {
numbers {
number = []
}
}
But rather:
foo {
numbers {
number = ''
}
}
which is broken.
In 0.3.8, this was also fixed. Empty arrays are represented consistently as [].
BIG WARNING HERE:
Please notice that this feature changes the form of returned soap encoded arrays and WILL
break some of your code. For this, I am really sorry and hope that you will agree that
the benefits outweigh the hassle of porting you code after upgrade.
Regards,
Jeff
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